Quantum Assigned Patent

Quantum Corporation, Redmond, WA, has been assigned a patent (10,275,157) developed by Wade, Gregory L., San Jose, CA, Haile, J. Mitchell, Somerville, MA, Kan, Bill, Redwood City, CA, and Herman, Barry, Atherton, CA, for a “metadata storage in unused portions of a virtual disk file.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems and method for storing metadata to unused portions of a virtual disk file. In a particular embodiment, a method provides selecting a virtual disk file stored on a data storage volume and identifying unused portions of the virtual disk file. The method further provides writing metadata for the virtual disk file in the unused portions of the virtual disk file.”

The patent application was filed on November 23, 2016 (15/360,774).