US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 27 for "Continuous namespace verification for single-node filesystems" (California, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,226, issued on May 27, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Continuous namespace verification for single-node filesystems" was invented by Shashikanth Lakshmikantha (San Jose, Calif.), Charles J. Hickey (Aptos, Calif.) and Murthy V. Mamidi (Queen Creek, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments for providing adaptive namespace verification with high efficiency. The verification process is used in modern filesystems to check the integrity of key data structures, such for backup systems where providing thorough and efficient mechanisms for verification is critical. Embodiments accelerate the verification proces...