US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 14 for "Copying of data in a storage system between storage drives that have embedded compression" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,360, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Copying of data in a storage system between storage drives that have embedded compression" was invented by Lee Jason Sanders (Chichester, Great Britain), Florent Christian Rostagni (Eastleigh, Great Britain), Paul Nicholas Cashman (Burnham-on-Sea, Great Britain), Roderick Guy Charles Moore (Bournemouth, Great Britain), Mark Keith Elliott (Hampshire, Great Britain) and Gareth John Nicholls (Brockenhurst, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computer system for copying of data in a storage syste...