ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,968, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Automatic namespace deletion system" was invented by Murali Manohar Shanmugam (Leander, Texas) and Kevin Jiajun Wu (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic namespace deletion system includes an automatic namespace deletion subsystem that is coupled to a storage system. The automatic namespace deletion subsystem receives a namespace creation instruction and, in response, creates a namespace in the storage system and sets a namespace deletion flag for the namespace. The automatic namespace deletion subsystem then stores data in the namesp...