ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,752, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods for cooperative caching between file systems and block storage" was invented by Vasudevan Subramanian (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Philippe Armangau (Kalispell, Mont.), Walter Forrester (Berkeley Heights, N.J.) and Frederic Corniquet (Le Pecq, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, by a computing device, a write request, wherein the write request may be received by a file system of the computing device. Data associated with the write request may be stored in a cache of the fi...