Vast Data Assigned Patent

Vast Data Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel, has been assigned a patent (10,678,461) developed by Hallak, Renen, Tenafly, NJ, Levy, Asaf, Goren, Avi, Tel Aviv, Israel, Vaknin, Yogev, Karkur, Israel, and Turin, Alex, Kiryat Ono, Israel, for a “distributed scalable storage.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A storage system. The storage system includes a plurality of storage nodes (DNodes) wherein the DNodes are configured to store a plurality of elements and a plurality of data blocks, wherein each element is a persistent metadata structure, wherein at least one of the elements store at least one attribute, wherein the at least one attribute includes a plurality of pointers, and a plurality of compute nodes (CNodes) wherein each CNode has access to each of the DNodes, wherein each CNode is configured to receive an access command and to execute the access command based on the elements.”

The patent application was filed on June 7, 2018 (16/002,676).