ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,667, issued on March 3, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Managing parity operations using controller-specific parity bitmaps" was invented by Suhas Girish Urkude (San Ramon, Calif.), Tandra De (Milpitas, Calif.), Ratnesh Gupta (Dublin, Calif.), Bharath Kumar Nachenahalli Bhuthegowda (Newark, Calif.) and Deepan Natesan Seeralan (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure describes systems, devices, and methods for tracking operations of controllers in a data storage environment on a per-controller basis. In an implementation, a method for re-performing an incomplete operation is provided. In the method, a...