ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,664, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"High availability using virtual storage controllers in a scale out storage cluster" was invented by Pratapa Reddy Vaka (Saratoga, Calif.), Jaspal Kohli (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Hari Krishna Mudaliar (Pleasanton, Calif.), Shwetashree Virajamangala (Cupertino, Calif.) and Raju Kurunkad Vasudevan (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples are provided for a method of providing access to data of a data center. In one aspect, the method comprises storing a unit of data to each of a plurality of data nodes of a data center, designatin...