Parsec Labs Assigned Patent

Parsec Labs, LLC, Maple Grove, MN, has been assigned a patent (9,875,029) developed by Bromley, Graham, Dublin, CA, Angerer, Walter, Maple Grove, MN, Bromley, Richard, Dublin, CA, Clowser, Kirk, Dellwood, MN, and Genda, Jon, Rogers, MN, for a “network-attached storage enhancement appliance.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A network attached storage management appliance that can be inserted into a pre-existing network. The appliance sits between an end user and the available storage and optimizes performance and storage through acceleration of data, migration of data, compression of data, deduplication of data, and expansion of storage. The device moves data between lower- and higher-performance storage, with frequently accessed data sitting in higher-performance storage and infrequently accessed data sitting in lower-performance storage.”

The patent application was filed on December 27, 2016 (15/391,286).