ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,883, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Managing decref processing from tablets containing sorted buckets" was invented by Vladimir Shveidel (Pardes Hana-Karkur, Israel) and Jenny Derzhavetz (Raanana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for managing reference-count decrements (decrefs) includes defining an aggregation domain that includes multiple tablets created at respective points in time, each of the tablets containing multiple sorted buckets arranged in a respective sequence of bucket identifiers that is repeated across all of the tablets, the sorted buckets containing decrefs...