US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Jan. 13 for "Container-level management of compressed file system data" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,375, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Container-level management of compressed file system data" was invented by Omar Carey (Redmond, Wash.) and Rajsekhar Das (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A file system volume's space is internally allocated as a set of containers, with each container corresponding to a different subset of storage clusters. The set of containers includes a first container corresponding to a first subset of storage clusters storing first data that is compressed according to a first set of compression attributes, a second container corresponding...