Tintri Assigned Patent

Tintri Inc., Mountain View, CA, has been assigned a patent (9,256,474) developed by Singh, Pratap V., Mountain View, CA, Malyugin, Vyacheslav V., Los Gatos, CA, Gritter, Mark G., Eagan, MN, and Lee, Edward K., Dublin, CA, for a “automatically aligning virtual blocks to physical blocks.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Automatically aligning virtual blocks of partitions to blocks of underlying physical storage is disclosed. In some embodiments, a starting offset of a partition included in a logical container is detected. In some embodiments, a misalignment correction amount for a partition included in a logical container is detected. In some embodiments, a misalignment associated with a partition included in a logical container is corrected.“

The patent application was filed on October 8, 2014 (14/509,857).