ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,756,754, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Executable objects in a distributed storage system" was invented by Morgan Mears (Raleigh, N.C.), Mauricio Sanchez (Pleasant Garden, N.C.), Samuel Fink (Cary, N.C.) and Brian Atkins (Durham, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed for running an executable object on an object storage system. An executable object including executable code is stored on a first storage node of an object storage system. The first storage node receives a request to run the executable object. The first storage node identifies the ph...