ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,782, issued on March 25, was assigned to Weka.IO Ltd. (Israel).

"Efficient networking for a distributed storage system" was invented by Maor Ben Dayan (Tel Aviv, Israel), Omri Palmon (Tel Aviv, Israel), Liran Zvibel (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Tomer Filiba (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. Data communication is made more efficient by removing the need to copy data in the networking stack, using hardware accelerated end-...