ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,307,109, issued on May 20, was assigned to Lemon Inc. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Journal based data storage in block-level storage" was invented by Peng Xu (Los Angeles), Fei Liu (Los Angeles), Sheng Qiu (Los Angeles), Kyoungryun Bae (Los Angeles), Ming Lin (Los Angeles), Jinwei Xie (Beijing), Shan Xiao (Beijing) and Bhanu Gogineni (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is directed to storing data in a non-volatile storage. The method includes writing sequentially at least a main portion of a data record in one or more logic blocks of an append-only storage zone of the non-volatile storage until the one or more first ...