ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,127, issued on June 24, was assigned to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd (Shenzhen, China).

"NAS central sequencer, NAS clients and journaling methods" was invented by Michael Hirsch (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Itamar Ofek (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Daniel Goodman (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Igor Shafran (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Eddy Duer (Hod Hasharon, Israel) and Assaf Natanzon (Hod Hasharon, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A NAS memory controller is provided that is operatively connected to one or more NAS clients for shared memory access, where each NAS client includes a clock and is operatively connected to other NAS clients of the one or ...