Excelero Storage Assigned Patent

Excelero Storage Ltd., Tel Aviv, Israel, has been assigned a patent (10,740,202) developed by Romem, Yaniv, Mann, Omri, Jerusalem, Israel, Oshri, Ofer, Kfar Saba, Israel, Shoikhet, Kirill, Raanana, Israel, and Shmulyan, Daniel Herman, Beer Yaaqov, Israel, for “system and method for efficient comparison of mirrored storage devices.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A system and method for comparing mirrored storage devices. The method includes: selecting, from a storage slice of a first storage device and at least a second storage device, corresponding storage blocks that are not trimmed blocks, wherein trimmed blocks are blocks within a storage device marked for erasure, comparing the corresponding storage blocks such that a non-trimmed block of the first storage device is compared to a corresponding non-trimmed block of the second storage device to determine which storage blocks do not match, and performing a recovery operation between the non-trimmed block of the first storage device and a non-matching corresponding first non-trimmed block of the second storage device.”

The patent application was filed on February 7, 2019 (16/270,017).