US Patent Issued to NetApp on July 8 for "Key value store with distributed shared access by clients" (North Carolina, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,760, issued on July 8, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Key value store with distributed shared access by clients" was invented by Nagaraj S. Lalsangi (Cary, N.C.), Arindam Banerjee (Fremont, Calif.) and Timothy K. Emami (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for hosting a key value store. A persistent storage backend is used to centrally host a key value store as disaggregated storage shared with a plurality of clients over a network fabric. A network storage appliance is connected to the plurality of clients over the network fabric, and is configured with a key value store interface....