ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,757, issued on March 4, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"System and method for storage optimization using machine learning- driven application and workload identification" was invented by Shaul Dar (Petach Tikva, Israel), Ranjith Reddy Basireddy (Telangana, India) and Rajesh Alevoor Kini (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for receiving a first set of input/output (IO) requests for one or more storage objects. One or more IO properties may be extracted from the first set of IO requests. Metadata may be associated with the one or more stor...