ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,895, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Write ordering for persistent memory" was invented by Ram Kesavan (Los Altos, Calif.), Matthew Fontaine Curtis-Maury (Apex, N.C.), Abdul Basit (Morrisville, N.C.), Vinay Devadas (Apex, N.C.) and Ananthan Subramanian (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for implementing write ordering for persistent memory. A set of actions are identified for commitment to persistent memory of a node for executing an operation upon the persistent memory. An episode is created to comprise a first subset of actions of the set of actions that can...