ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,372, issued on March 11, was assigned to Mellanox Technologies Ltd. (Yokneam, Israel).

"Transparent recovery of emulated storage device after a failure" was invented by Roman Spiegelman (Yokneam Illit, Israel), Eliav Bar-Ilan (Or Akiva, Israel) and Oren Duer (Kohav Yair, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a system includes a storage device controller including a first controller to read commands from a submission queue stored in a shared memory, provide the commands to a second controller, and write completion notices received from the second controller to a completion queue in the shared memory, and the second...