US Patent Issued to NetApp on Sept. 1 for "Dynamic storage aggregate layout refresh" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,546, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic storage aggregate layout refresh" was invented by Suhas Girish Urkude (San Ramon, Calif.), Byung Guk Kim (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Sowkoor Sunad Bhandary (Morrisville, Calif.) and Ratnesh Gupta (Dublin, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure describes systems, devices, and methods for managing data storage environments. In an example implementation, a method of operating a controller in a data storage environment is provided. In performing the method, the controller identifies a change to a layout of drives in the data storage environment, and...