US Patent Issued to NetApp on July 8 for "Load balancing and fault tolerant service in a distributed data system" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,924, issued on July 8, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Load balancing and fault tolerant service in a distributed data system" was invented by Rakshit Karnawat (Bangalore, India), Veena Ts (Bangalore, India) and Ganesh Marappa (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for load balancing and fault tolerant service are described. An apparatus may comprise load balancing and fault tolerant component operative to execute a load balancing and fault tolerant service in a distributed data system. The load balancing and fault tolerant service distributes a load of a task to a first node in a cluster of nodes...