US Patent Issued to Lemon on May 13 for "Methods and systems for garbage collection and compaction for key-value engines" (Chinese, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,900, issued on May 13, was assigned to Lemon Inc. (Cayman Islands).

"Methods and systems for garbage collection and compaction for key-value engines" was invented by Jiaxin Ou (Beijing), Yi Wang (Beijing), Jingwei Zhang (Beijing) and Zhengyu Yang (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for garbage collection and compaction for key-value engines in a data storage and communication system. The method includes determining disk capacity usage of the key-value engine and adjusting a garbage collection percentage threshold and a number of garbage collection threads based on whether the disk capacity usage of the key...