US Patent Issued to NetApp on Sept. 29 for "Automatic space sharing of disaggregated storage of a storage pod by multiple nodes of a distributed storage system" (California, Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,539, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Automatic space sharing of disaggregated storage of a storage pod by multiple nodes of a distributed storage system" was invented by Anil Paul Thoppil (Pleasanton, Calif.), Ananthan Subramanian (San Ramon, Calif.), Suhas Urkude (San Ramon, Calif.), Arindam Banerjee (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Richard Parvin Jernigan IV (Sewickley, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for implementation and use of disaggregated storage by a distributed storage system. In various examples described herein, the association of blocks of storage space wi...