ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,678, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Storage system including storage nodes each including a storage controller configured to run on a processor" was invented by Shintaro Ito (Tokyo), Sachie Tajima (Tokyo), Takahiro Yamamoto (Tokyo) and Yoshinori Ohira (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage system having both a high performance and high reliability is implemented. The storage system includes a plurality of storage nodes each including a processor and a memory, and a storage device. Each of the plurality of storage nodes includes a storage controller configured to run on the processor...