US Patent Issued to NetApp on July 22 for "Reducing potential data-loss scenarios when using ephemeral storage as backing storage for journaling by a virtual storage system" (Massachusetts, New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,105, issued on July 22, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Reducing potential data-loss scenarios when using ephemeral storage as backing storage for journaling by a virtual storage system" was invented by Sangramsinh Pandurang Pawar (Bedford, Mass.), Per Olov Wahlstrom (Lexington, Mass.), William Derby Dallas (Merrimack, N.H.), Houze Xu (Lexington, Mass.), Ruitao Duan (Wellesley, Mass.) and Rajesh Rajaraman (Action, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for flushing an operation log journal to both ephemeral storage and persistent storage during a shutdown sequence of a virtual storage system to mini...