ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,591, issued on June 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Storage data copies with differing compression algorithms" was invented by Roderick Guy Charles Moore (Bournemouth, Great Britain), Ben Sasson (North Baddesley, Great Britain), Lee Jason Sanders (Chichester, Great Britain) and Paul Nicholas Cashman (Alton, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for managing a storage array in a storage system may include an analysis component for analyzing a set of compression ratios used for a set of storage blocks written on a first storage device and a second storage device to determine a pa...