US Patent Issued to NetApp on Feb. 3 for "Distributed storage systems and methods to provide object storage support with synchronous replication of data and configuration information" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,437, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Distributed storage systems and methods to provide object storage support with synchronous replication of data and configuration information" was invented by Wenxin Zhou (Vancouver, Canada), Surabhi Singh (San Jose, Calif.), Sunny Kalra (Union City, Calif.), Wenqing Gu (Burnaby, Canada) and Galan Blake Enzinger (Ucluelet, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, a computer implemented method includes storing objects in a first bucket and storing files in a second bucket of a first storage cluster of the distributed storage system, synchronously rep...