ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,589, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Filesystem operations in storage devices" was invented by Gil Barash (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Shlomi Apel (Herzliya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations relate to data storage. An example includes inspecting a block level input/output (I/O) request to be executed by a block-based storage device, and in response to a determination that the block level I/O request includes a filesystem operation, generating a copy of the block level I/O request. The example also includes parsing the copy of the block level I/O requ...