US Patent Issued to Lemon on Nov. 11 for "Techniques for garbage collecting zones in a file system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,626, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Lemon Inc. (Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands).

"Techniques for garbage collecting zones in a file system" was invented by Prathamesh Amritkar (Los Angeles), Peng Xu (Los Angeles), Jinhyuk Kim (Los Angeles) and Kyoungryun Bae (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are examples for performing garbage collection in a file system having multiple zones of data. A garbage rate associated with an amount of invalid data in the zone can be computed for each zone of the multiple zones in the file system. One or more candidate zones, of the multiple zones, can be determined for garbage collecti...