Vast Data Assigned Patent

Vast Data Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel, has been assigned a patent (10,877,671) developed by Hallak, Renen, Tenafly, NJ, Zdornov, Vladimir, Kfar Saba, Israel, Vaknin, Yogev, Karkur, Israel, Levy, Asaf, Tel Aviv, Israel, and Turin, Alex, Kiryat Ono, Israel, for “techniques for prolonging lifespan of storage drives.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system and method for prolonging lifespans of storage drives. The method includes writing at least a first portion of data to at least one high endurance drive, and writing at least a second portion of data to at least one low endurance drive, wherein a storage system includes a plurality of drives, wherein the plurality of drives includes the at least one high endurance drive and the at least one low endurance drive, wherein each high endurance drive has a longer total lifespan than each low endurance drive.”

The patent application was filed on December 3, 2018 (16/207,732).