ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,422, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Persistent memory architecture" was invented by Ananthan Subramanian (San Ramon, Calif.), Ram Kesavan (Los Altos, Calif.), Matthew Fontaine Curtis-Maury (Apex, N.C.) and Mark Smith (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for implementing a persistent memory storage tier to manage persistent memory of a node. The persistent memory is managed by the persistent memory storage tier at a higher level within a storage operating system storage stack than a level at which a storage file system of the node is managed. The persistent memo...