US Patent Issued to NetApp on Dec. 30 for "Facilitating sharing of a namespace of an ephemeral storage device by multiple consumers of a virtual storage system" (North Carolina, Texas, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,149, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Facilitating sharing of a namespace of an ephemeral storage device by multiple consumers of a virtual storage system" was invented by Joseph Brown Jr. (Raleigh, N.C.), Javier Tsuyoshi Takimoto (Missouri City, Texas), Sangramsinh Pandurang Pawar (Bedford, Mass.) and Michael Scott Ryan (Wake Forest, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for sharing a namespace of an ephemeral storage device by multiple consumers are provided. In an example, an NVMe driver of a virtual storage system deployed within a compute instance of a cloud environment facili...