ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,941, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to VAST DATA LTD. (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"User defined validation on content stored in a storage system" was invented by Eyal Gordon (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Asaf Levy (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for user-defined validation of content stored in a storage system, the method may include receiving a request to execute a user-defined validation process (UDVP) on the content that is stored in the storage system; wherein the request is associated with means for executing the UDVP, and a content identifier; scheduling, by the storage system, at least one execution of the UDVP; e...