ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,172, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Data processing method and storage system" was invented by Zheng Li (Xi'an, China), Zhenbo Zhang (Xi'an, China) and Yuan Gao (Xi'an, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of this application provide example data processing methods and example storage systems. One example method is performed by the storage system, and includes obtaining physical addresses of a plurality of pieces of first data stored in a hard disk, where each piece of first data is the same as at least one piece of second data in a plurality of pieces of second data wr...