US Patent Issued to NetApp on March 31 for "Distributed file system that provides scalability and resiliency" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,552, issued on March 31, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Distributed file system that provides scalability and resiliency" was invented by Ravikanth Dronamraju (Pleasanton, Calif.), Ananthan Subramanian (San Ramon, Calif.), Daniel McCarthy (Erie, Colo.), Christopher Cason (Boulder, Colo.) and Arindam Banerjee (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed storage management system comprising nodes that form a cluster, a distributed block layer that spans the nodes in the cluster, and file system instances deployed on the nodes. Each file system instance comprises a data management subsystem and a stor...