US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 22 for "Distribution of copies of metadata associated with processing groups among storage nodes of a data storage system" (American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,216, issued on July 22, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Distribution of copies of metadata associated with processing groups among storage nodes of a data storage system" was invented by Yosef Shatsky (Karnei Shomron, Israel) and Doron Tal (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises at least one processing device configured to determine a given portion of metadata associated with a given one of a plurality of processing groups, the given processing group being assigned to a given one of a plurality of storage nodes of a data storage system. The at least one processing device is also con...