US Patent Issued to NetApp on June 3 for "Distributed control plane for handling worker node failures of a distributed storage architecture" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,790, issued on June 3, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Distributed control plane for handling worker node failures of a distributed storage architecture" was invented by Praveen Kumar Hasti (Acton, Mass.) and Christopher Alan Busick (Littleton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for implementing a distributed control plane to facilitate communication between a container orchestration platform and a distributed storage architecture. The distributed storage architecture hosts worker nodes that manage distributed storage that can be made accessible to applications within the container orchestrat...