ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,957, issued on June 16, was assigned to EVERPURE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Orchestrating storage system operations between controllers of a multiple controller storage system" was invented by Matthew Carlis (Mountain View, Calif.) and Nathan Poland (Boulder Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first indication of an input/output (I/O) operation to be performed by a first storage system controller is stored in memory of a particular storage device storing data associated with the I/O operation by a second storage system controller. The first indication causes the particular storage device to store the data in a buffer of ...