ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,790, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Efficient IO processing" was invented by Jin Wang (Cupertino, Calif.) and Siamak Nazari (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a storage system to process input and output operations. The method includes receiving writes over time to an address at a base virtual volume, storing each of the writes in a physical storage at a new location that is without existing data, tagging each stored write with a different generation number to distinguish between different versions of data written to the address at the base virtual volume, recei...