ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,850, issued on March 25, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).
"Space efficient distributed storage systems" was invented by Gobinda Das (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Space efficient distributed storage systems are disclosed. For example, A system comprising a distributed storage volume (DSV) deployed on a plurality of hosts, the DSV comprising logical volumes, the logical volumes deployed on physical storage devices; and a first host of the plurality of hosts with a local cache, and a storage controller, the storage controller executing on a processor to receive a request relating to a first file; query t...