ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,293, issued on May 13, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Blockchain-enabled storage array" was invented by Owen Crowley (Carrigaline, Ireland) and Pawel Wasylyszyn (Cracow, Poland).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to establishing a tightly coupled integration between a decentralized blockchain network and a centralized storage array. In embodiments, a first set of storage operations on a snapshot of a storage array are performed. Further, data blocks generated from the snapshot are broadcast to at least one computing network for the at least one computing network's nodes to perform a s...