ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,125, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Storage system and data protection method" was invented by Sadahiro Sugimoto (Tokyo), Norio Shimozono (Tokyo), Tomohiro Yoshihara (Tokyo) and Shintaro Ito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage system includes a non-volatile storage device and a plurality of storage controllers that control reading and writing for the storage device, in which each of the plurality of storage controllers includes a processor and a memory, the storage controller stores a write request from a host for the storage device as cache data in the memory, returns a writ...