ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,709, issued on July 15, was assigned to HANGZHOU ALICLOUD FEITIAN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Distributed storage space management method, computing device and storage medium" was invented by Jun Piao (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed storage space management method, a computing device and a storage medium are provided. An embodiment is applied to a hardware smart card, which is deployed on a local host as a local hardware smart card. A corresponding storage space is partitioned for a local virtual device from a pre-configured storage device; the partitioned storage space is simulat...