US Patent Issued to NetApp on Aug. 19 for "Identification of storage backends to higher-level processes to perform storage volume management" (North Carolina, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,360, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Identification of storage backends to higher-level processes to perform storage volume management" was invented by Clinton Douglas Knight (Apex, N.C.), Alex Cameron Meade (Apex, N.C.) and Joseph Eli Webster (Wichita, Kan.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The technology disclosed herein enables a higher-level process to perform storage volume management with knowledge of a physical storage backend underlying a storage volume. In a particular example, a method includes mounting a storage volume to a computing node of the computing nodes. The storage volume is stored...