US Patent Issued to NetApp on Feb. 17 for "Temporary local protection against data loss when a node fails in a distributed storage system" (North Carolina, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,596, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Temporary local protection against data loss when a node fails in a distributed storage system" was invented by Morgan Mears (Raleigh, N.C.), Samuel Fink (Cary, N.C.) and Kyle Grygo (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed herein enhances data protection in a distributed storage system. In a particular example, a method includes determining a drive in a subject node of the distributed storage system has failed while storing first data of a data set distributed across nodes of the distributed storage system by a data protection mechanis...