US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Feb. 17 for "Garbage collection and data compression via a computational storage" (British, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,405, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Garbage collection and data compression via a computational storage" was invented by Miles Mulholland (Eastleigh, Great Britain), Imran Imtiaz (Manchester, Great Britain), Anuj Chandra (Bengaluru, India) and Graham Woodward (Manchester, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Metadata associated with a file is received, where the metadata indicates whether data included in the file is transformable or not. The metadata of the file is processed to determine that the metadata indicates that the data is transformable. The data is transfor...