ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,530, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to HANGZHOU ALICLOUD FEITIAN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Data caching and reading method, and data access system" was invented by Dapeng Sun (Shanghai), Tao Wang (Shanghai), Shunyang Yao (Shanghai), Xinxin Shu (Shanghai), Kai Zheng (Shanghai), Kunhui Su (Shanghai) and Jiajia Li (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data caching and reading method, and a data access system are provided. A client sends a first request to a data storage system so as to obtain metadata of target data. The client sends a second request to a data caching system, the second request comprising...