US Patent Issued to NetApp on July 22 for "Distributed file system that provides scalability and resiliency" (California, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,184, issued on July 22, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Distributed file system that provides scalability and resiliency" was invented by Ravikanth Dronamraju (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ananthan Subramanian (San Ramon, Calif.), Daniel McCarthy (Boulder, Colo.), Christopher Cason (Boulder, Colo.) and Arindam Banerjee (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In various examples, data storage is managed using a distributed storage management system that is resilient. Data blocks of a logical block device may be distributed across multiple nodes in a cluster. The logical block device may correspond to a file system vo...