ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,927, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Storage location metadata for a deduplication storage system" was invented by Treeve White (Bristol, Great Britain), Richard Phillip Mayo (Bristol, Great Britain) and Peter Thomas Camble (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations relate to deduplication operations in a storage system. An example includes receiving a stream of data units to be stored in a persistent storage of a deduplication storage system; generating a manifest to record a received order of the data units; indexing the data units in c...