ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,733, issued on May 12, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Techniques for coordinating parallel performance and cancellation of commands in a storage cluster system" was invented by Manoj Sundararajan (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Paul Yuedong Mu (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Paul Ngan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments are directed to techniques for coordinating at least partially parallel performance and cancellation of data access commands between nodes of a storage cluster system. An apparatus may include a processor component of a first node coupled to a first storage device storing client device ...