ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,594, issued on April 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data storage method and apparatus" was invented by Guiyou Pu (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: obtaining running parameters of a plurality of hard disks, where the running parameters of the plurality of hard disks comprise information for measuring individual differences of the plurality of hard disks in performance; selecting at least one target hard disk based on the running parameters of the plurality of hard disks; and writing data into the target hard disk."...