US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Oct. 7 for "Performance of dispersed location-based deduplication" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,700, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Performance of dispersed location-based deduplication" was invented by Reut Cohen (Tel Aviv, Israel), Jonathan Fischer-Toubol (Tel Aviv, Israel), Afief Halumi (Tel Aviv, Israel), Danny Harnik (Tel Mond, Israel), Ety Khaitzin (Petah Tikva, Israel), Sergey Marenkov (Tel Aviv, Israel), Asaf Porat-Stoler (Ramat Gan, Israel), Yosef Shatsky (Karnei Shomron, Israel) and Tom Sivan (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A mechanism is provided for dispersed location-based data storage. A request is received to write a data file to a referrer...