US Patent Issued to NetApp on May 26 for "Gransets for managing consistency groups of dispersed storage items" (California, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,270, issued on May 26, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Gransets for managing consistency groups of dispersed storage items" was invented by Devang Kundanlal Shah (San Jose, Calif.), Dipankar Roy (San Jose, Calif.), Krishnaveni Budati (Fremont, Calif.), Kai Tan (Cary, N.C.), Pranab Patnaik (Cary, N.C.) and Akhil Kaushik (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for managing an arbitrary set of storage items using a granset. For example, a storage controller may host a plurality of storage items and/or logical unit numbers (LUNs). A subset of the storag...