ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,219,010, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Cross-site high-availability distributed cloud storage system to monitor virtual channels between storage nodes and prevent channel sharing of a receive queue" was invented by Yanbei Wang (Southborough, Mass.) and Houze Xu (Lexington, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to one embodiment, a computer implemented method comprises providing multiple channels between a first storage node and a second storage node with each channel having a separate network connection for packets of a transport layer session, assigning packets from each channel to a group of...