ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,530, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic quality of service implementation based upon resource saturation" was invented by Abdul Basit (Morrisville, N.C.), Daniel McCarthy (Erie, Colo.), Christopher Lee Cason (Boulder, Colo.) and Jian Hu (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for dynamically implementing quality of service policies for a distributed storage system based upon resources saturation. A quality of service policy is defined for throttling I/O operations received by a node of the distributed storage system based upon whether resources of the node have bec...