US Patent Issued to NetApp on July 21 for "Dual-port interposer for storage drives" (Minnesota, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,962, issued on July 21, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dual-port interposer for storage drives" was invented by Edward Joseph Fiore (Ramsey, Minn.) and Reyaz Ahmed (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques, equipment, and systems for enhanced storage systems and storage drive interfacing are presented herein. In one example, a storage interposer includes a storage device connector configured to couple a dual port interface selected among a first interface protocol and a second interface protocol, and a protocol unit configured to transfer storage transactions received over the dual port interface in...