US Patent Issued to HITACHI VANTARA on June 9 for "Storage system and control method for storage system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,778, issued on June 9, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Storage system and control method for storage system" was invented by Taisuke Ono (Tokyo), Yoshinori Ohira (Tokyo), Takahiro Yamamoto (Tokyo) and Shintaro Ito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When execution of a write-back operation is selected, a storage system stores, in a cache area, data for which a write request is issued from a higher-level apparatus, stores an updated content of the cache area in a cache log storage area, and then writes the data to a data storage area. On the other hand, when execution of a write-through operation is selected,...