US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Jan. 27 for "Method and system for supporting dedupe, compression, logical volume crypto-erasure, and physical volume crypto-erasure on a storage array" (Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,963, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method and system for supporting dedupe, compression, logical volume crypto-erasure, and physical volume crypto-erasure on a storage array" was invented by Charles William Kaufman (Redmond, Wash.), Naizhong Chiu (Newton, Mass.), Jamie Pocas (Milford, Mass.), Saoni Mukherjee (Westborough, Mass.), Radia Joy Perlman (Redmond, Wash.), James McCoy (Holliston, Mass.) and Ashok Tamilarasan (Shrewsbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating a storage array includes: generating a per-chunk key and a deduplication key for a data chunk based on ...