ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,148, issued on May 27, was assigned to SUZHOU METABRAIN INTELLIGENT TECHNOLOGY Co. LTD. (Jiangsu, China).

"Data storage method using internal and external source tracing regions of a magnetic disk and apparatus, and electronic device and readable storage medium" was invented by Luxian Yu (Jiangsu, China) and Bin Hou (Jiangsu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure discloses a data storing method, an apparatus, an electronic device and a readable storage medium, wherein the method includes: constructing a data region and an external source-tracing region in a magnetic disk of a distributed storage system in advanc...