ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,978, issued on March 17, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Application-centric web protocol-based data storage" was invented by Rajiv Asati (Morrisville, N.C.) and Edward Albert Warnicke (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of managing data storage processes may include, at a processing device, computing a hypertext transmission protocol version 3 (HTTP/3) header of a first message received at a network interface controller (NIC) device into a non-volatile memory express (NVMe) message, transmitting the NVMe message to a device associated with the processing device, and with the NVMe messag...