ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,913, issued on May 13, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Storage system" was invented by Kentaro Shimada (Tokyo), Nobuhiro Yokoi (Tokyo) and Masahiro Tsuruya (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A protocol chip writes a request from a host apparatus to a shared memory. One of the plurality of processors reads the request from the host apparatus from the shared memory through an address translation unit and writes a response to the request to the shared memory through the address translation unit. The protocol chip reads the response from the shared memory and sends the response to the host apparatus. In the ca...