ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,411, issued on May 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Data access method and apparatus" was invented by Jie Su (Hangzhou, China), Caicheng Lin (Shenzhen, China), Laibin Qiu (Hangzhou, China) and Wei Xu (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data access method performed by a processing device is disclosed. The processing device manages a storage device based on a log-structured file system (LFS), where the processing device writes a target file to the storage device based on an out place update (OPU) mechanism; and the processing device writes file attribute information corresponding to th...