ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,223, issued on July 1, was assigned to Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Commit block structure and device, for multiple file transaction" was invented by Youjip Won (Daejeon, South Korea) and Joontaek Oh (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a multiple file transaction method comprising: a first step in which, for each of a plurality of files, a file system of a host stores, in a master commit block, the location of an inode block in a storage, the inode block being a block in which an inode of the file is written; and a second step in which the file system stores ...