US Patent Issued to NetApp on July 7 for "Low-overhead atomic writes for persistent memory" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,412, issued on July 7, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Low-overhead atomic writes for persistent memory" was invented by Matthew Fontaine Curtis-Maury (Apex, N.C.), Vinay Devadas (Apex, N.C.), Ananthan Subramanian (San Ramon, Calif.) and Ram Kesavan (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for atomic writes for persistent memory. In response to receiving a write operation, a new per-page structure with a new page block number is allocated. New data of the write operation is persisted to a new page of the persistent memory having the new page block number, and the new per-page structure...