ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,573, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for performing unaligned deduplication" was invented by Uri Shabi (Tel Mond, Israel), Mark Abashkin (Erez, Israel) and Bar Harel (Giv'atayim, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving a user data page for storing in a storage system. An unaligned hash representation of the received user data page may be generated. The generated unaligned hash representation may be identified within a hash table, thus defining an identified hash representation. A user data page associated w...