US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 13 for "Dynamic reserve capacity in storage systems" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,303, issued on May 13, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Dynamic reserve capacity in storage systems" was invented by Yosef Shatsky (Karnei Shomron, Israel) and Doron Tal (Geva Carmel, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for managing a dynamic reserve capacity of a block storage system. A storage control system partitions a storage capacity of at least one storage device into a plurality of blocks for storing data. A data access operation is performed by the storage control system which results in invalidating at least a portion of data stored in a given block. In response to the invalid...