US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Feb. 3 for "Namespace management using mastership in multi-host storage systems" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,472, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Namespace management using mastership in multi-host storage systems" was invented by Swarup Kulkarni (Bangalore, India), Dinesh Babu (Bangalore, India) and Pavan Gururaj (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and storage interface controllers for namespace management using mastership in multi-host storage systems are described. The storage interface controllers, such as NVMeOF controllers, determine the set of host systems connected to a namespace and indicate one of them has having mastership. Only the host system...