ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,504, issued on April 1, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and system of storing data to data storage for variable size deduplication" was invented by Assaf Natanzon (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of storing data to a data storage and related device are provided, wherein data storage is divided into two or more variable size chunks, and each variable size chunks is divided into blocks, and the data storage comprises set of metadata. The data storage is also divided into two fixed size chunks. The method comprises: writing incoming write IO to a position of the corres...