ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,859, issued on July 15, was assigned to Hitachi Vantara Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Storage system including storage nodes, storage controller processing data reading and writing, and volatile memory, and storage control method" was invented by Taisuke Ono (Tokyo), Yoshinori Ohira (Tokyo), Shintaro Ito (Tokyo) and Takahiro Yamamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage system includes one or more storage nodes each having a non-volatile storage device, a storage controller, and a volatile memory, in which the storage device includes a plurality of base image storage areas including at least a first base image storage area and ...