ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,864, issued on June 17, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Key-value store and file system integration" was invented by Sanjay Subramanian Seshadri (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Arindam Banerjee (Fremont, Calif.), Manan Dahyabhai Patel (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Raymond Jordan Go (Burbank, Calif.), Anil Paul Thoppil (Pleasanton, Calif.), Ananthan Subramanian (San Ramon, Calif.), Santhosh Selvaraj (San Jose, Calif.), Nikul Y. Patel (San Jose, Calif.), Vikhyath Rao (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Meera Odugoudar (Milpitas, Calif.) and Kevin Daniel Varghese (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for key-value store...