US Patent Issued to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance on Sept. 30 for "Storage management in a clustered storage environment" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,290, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. (Bloomington, Ill.).

"Storage management in a clustered storage environment" was invented by Nate Shepherd (Bloomington, Ill.) and Margaret L. Christopher (Bloomington, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure describes techniques for enabling efficient and/or expeditious retrieval of data records stored across a clustered storage framework. An example system manages storage of data records in the storage clusters based on predefined placement rules. Frequently accessed data records are stored in a local high-performance store storage medi...