Amplidata/HGST/WDC Assigned Patent

Amplidata NV (acquired by HGST/WDC), Lochristi, Belgium, has been assigned a patent (9,699,255) developed by De Spiegeleer, Kristof Mark Guy, Knokke-Heist, Belgium, and De Wispelaere, Wim Michel Marcel, Ghent, Belgium, for a “device driver.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A device driver includes an aggregator aggregating data blocks into one or more container objects suited for storage in an object store, and a logger for maintaining in at least one log file for each data block an identification of a container object wherein the data block is stored with an identification of the location of the data block in the container object.“

The patent application was filed on January 4, 2016 (14/987,660).