US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Aug. 5 for "Managing storage extents using wear levels" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,853, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Managing storage extents using wear levels" was invented by Amitai Alkalay (Kadima, Israel), Vamsi K. Vankamamidi (Hopkinton, Mass.) and Lior Kamran (Richon LeZion, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique is directed to managing wear leveling between storage devices. The technique includes obtaining a wear level metric of a candidate storage extent that includes storage from multiple storage devices. The technique further includes performing an assessment operation that provides an indication that the candidate storage extent satisfies an access cr...