MIT, Northeastern University and University of Connecticut Assigned Patent

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, and University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT, has been assigned a patent (10,872,072) developed by Medard, Muriel, Belmont, MA, Konwar, Kishori Mohan, Revere, MA, Narayana Moorthy, Prakash, Framingham, MA, Lynch, Nancy Ann, Brookline, MA, Kantor, Erez, Brookline, MA, and Schwarzmann, Alexander Allister, Storrs, CT, for “storage-optimized data-atomic systems and techniques for handling erasures and errors in distributed storage systems.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Described are devices, systems and techniques for implementing atomic memory objects in a multi-writer, multi-reader setting. In an embodiment, the devices, systems and techniques use maximum distance separable (MDS) codes, and may be specifically designed to optimize a total storage cost for a given fault-tolerance requirement. Also described is an embodiment to handle the case where some of the servers can return erroneous coded elements during a read operation.”

The patent application was filed on December 12, 2017 (15/838,966).