ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,045, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method, device, and computer program product for determining space consumption" was invented by Wenyang Liu (Beijing), Chen Gong (Beijing), Chunhao Ni (Beijing), Ying Tian (Beijing) and Dapeng Chi (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining space consumption involve acquiring a first feature set of a storage system, wherein the first feature set comprises at least a size of logical space of the storage system. Such techniques further involve determining space consumption for file system checks of the storage system by a machine learn...