US Patent Issued to Nvidia on June 30 for "Provision and configuration of quorum witnesses in clusters" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,076, issued on June 30, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Provision and configuration of quorum witnesses in clusters" was invented by Jonathan A. McDowell (Belfast, Great Britain) and Simon Hewitt (Craigavon, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cloud managed storage system (200) includes a cluster of the nodes (220) that are already in communication with a cloud management plane (280) that has visibility of all the storage nodes (220) in the cluster. When a cluster is created, the number of nodes (220) is determined and based on the number of nodes (220), the storage system (200) can determine whether a...