US Patent Issued to NetApp on July 1 for "Garbage collection and bin synchronization for distributed storage architecture" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,564, issued on July 1, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Garbage collection and bin synchronization for distributed storage architecture" was invented by Manan Dahyabhai Patel (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Wei Sun (Boulder, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for implementing garbage collection and bin synchronization for a distributed storage architecture of worker nodes managing distributed storage composed of bins of blocks. As the distributed storage architecture scales out to accommodate more storage and worker nodes, garbage collection used to free unused blocks becomes unmanageable and slow. Ac...