US Patent Issued to Scality on July 1 for "Extended protection storage system PUT operation" (French, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,196, issued on July 1, was assigned to Scality S.A. (Paris).

"Extended protection storage system PUT operation" was invented by Giorgio Regni (Albany, Calif.), Lam Pham Sy (Issy-les-Moulineaux, France), Benoit Artuso (Hadol, France), Frederic Ferrandis (Saint Leu la Foret, France) and Vianney Rancurel (Sausalito, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is described. The method includes executing a PUT operation for an object including attempting to store the object's data and first protection information into S storage devices and attempting to store second protection information into one or more R additional storage devices. T...