US Patent Issued to Qumulo on Oct. 14 for "Object-based storage with garbage collection and data consolidation" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,559, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Qumulo Inc. (Seattle).

"Object-based storage with garbage collection and data consolidation" was invented by Graham Edwin Ellis (Seattle), Ying Fairweather (Sammamish, Wash.), Thorne Davis Garvin (Spokane, Wash.), Steven Henry Haber (Seattle), Yuxi Bai (Seattle), Michael Anthony Chmiel (Seattle), Pathirat Kosakanchit (Seattle), Jonathan Michael MacLaren (Seattle), Matthew Christopher McMullan (Bellevue, Wash.), Tyler Morrison Moody (Seattle), Aaron James Passey (San Rafael, Calif.), Rowan Arthur Phipps (Seattle) and Thomas Gregory Rothschilds (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments ...