ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,210, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Managing changes to metadata in a data storage system" was invented by Dror Zalstein (Givatayim, Israel), Vladimir Shveidel (Pardes-Hana, Israel) and Jenny Derzhavetz (Raanana, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A searchable metadata change log is maintained in a persistent memory of a data storage system, and stores metadata changes to be aggregated and applied to data storage system metadata located in non-volatile data storage. New metadata changes are added to the metadata change log by storing the new metadata changes into the persistent memory, ...