ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,698, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"System and method for indexing a data item in a data storage system" was invented by Ovad Somech (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Assaf Natanzon (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Idan Zach (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Aviv Kuvent (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Yair Toaff (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Elizabeth Firman (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and David Spinadel (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for indexing a data item in a data storage system includes: dividing the data item into one or more large blocks; dividing each large block into ...