US Patent Issued to HITACHI VANTARA on June 2 for "Storage system and control method for data-type redundancy and non-volatile data management" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,543, issued on June 2, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Storage system and control method for data-type redundancy and non-volatile data management" was invented by Takahiro Yamamoto (Tokyo), Hiroki Fujii (Tokyo) and Yoshinori Ohira (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In each of a plurality of nodes constituting a storage system, when there is data to be stored in a segment allocated from a cache, the node determines, for the segment, whether redundancy (redundant data of the data in the segment is transferred to another node) and whether non-volatilization (data in the segment is stored in a non-volatile are...