US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 29 for "Garbage collection for storage in which high-performance volumes reside" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,341, issued on July 29, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Garbage collection for storage in which high-performance volumes reside" was invented by Roger G. Hathorn (Tucson, Ariz.), John Charles Elliott (Tucson, Ariz.), Matthew G. Borlick (Tucson, Ariz.), Micah Robison (Tucson, Ariz.), Beth Ann Peterson (Tucson, Ariz.) and Lokesh Mohan Gupta (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a storage device, system, and method for performance enhancing measures for storage in which high-performance volumes reside. Indication is made of a volume configured in the arrays to have high-perform...