ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,328, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Weka.IO Ltd. (Israel).

"Flash registry with on-disk hashing" was invented by Maor Ben Dayan (Tel Aviv, Israel), Omri Palmon (Tel Aviv, Israel), Liran Zvibel (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Kanael Arditti (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plurality of computing devices are communicatively coupled to each other via a network, and each of the plurality of computing devices is operably coupled to one or more of a plurality of storage devices. Each computing device is operable to access one or more memory blocks within the storage devices and maintain a registry over the same one or more memor...