US Patent Issued to Quantum on Sept. 16 for "Removable media based object store" (California, Minnesota, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,015, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Quantum Corp. (Centennial, Colo.).

"Removable media based object store" was invented by Roderick B. Wideman (Shackopee, Minn.), Turguy Goker (Oceanside, Calif.) and Suayb S. Arslan (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for implementing an object store using removable storage media includes the steps of receiving a request to retrieve first data; determining a first data object in which at least a portion of the first data is stored; determining a removable storage medium on which the first data object is stored, the removable storage medium including a value store partitio...