Vast Data Assigned Patent

Vast Data Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel, has been assigned a patent (10,656,857) developed by Hallak, Renen, Tenafly, NJ, Levy, Asaf, Goren, Avi, Tel Aviv, Israel, Vaknin, Yogev, Karkur, Israel, and Zdornov, Vladimir, Kfar Saba, Israel, for a “storage system indexed using persistent metadata structures.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A storage system. The storage system includes: a data store including a plurality of data blocks, and an element store, the element store including a plurality of element trees, wherein each element tree includes a plurality of metadata blocks containing pointers, wherein each pointer points to one of the plurality of metadata blocks or to one of the data blocks, wherein data of the plurality of data blocks is read by navigating at least one of the plurality of element trees.”

The patent application was filed on June 7, 2018 (16/002,804).