US Patent Issued to HITACHI VANTARA on Jan. 13 for "Interface module that allows for communication between devices with different communication protocols" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,178, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Interface module that allows for communication between devices with different communication protocols" was invented by Takashi Noguchi (Tokyo) and Nobuhiro Yokoi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An interface module connected to a storage controller and relaying communication between a host and the storage controller. The host and the storage controller use different communication protocols, include computing cores and a memory. At least one of the computing cores is a IO core in communication with the host, each of the IO cores has a virtual queue i...