ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,843, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Smooth metadata pages stream to raid blocks in log structured metadata based storage cluster" was invented by Vladimir Shveidel (Pardes Hana-Karkur, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for implementing metadata streams that provide increased performance and resiliency. The techniques include writing raw delta updates of metadata pages to a metadata delta log, and generating a metadata stream for a metadata page containing bulk updates. The techniques include passing the metadata stream to a tiered storage array, and storing the metadata page in ...