US Patent Issued to NetApp on Aug. 25 for "Enhanced availability management of virtual storage volumes in file system services" (North Carolina, New Hampshire, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,761, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Enhanced availability management of virtual storage volumes in file system services" was invented by Michael Scott Ryan (Wake Forest, N.C.), Sangramsinh Pandurand Pawar (Bedford, Mass.), Joseph Allen Brown Jr. (Raleigh, N.C.) and William Derby Dallas (Merrimack, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure describes systems, devices, and methods for automating the reintegration of a failed virtual storage block into a file system service upon recovery of the virtual storage block. In an example embodiment, a method performed by a storage controller in a fi...