US Patent Issued to NetApp on March 18 for "Use of cluster-level redundancy within a cluster of a distributed storage management system to address node-level errors" (Colorado, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,920, issued on March 18, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Use of cluster-level redundancy within a cluster of a distributed storage management system to address node-level errors" was invented by Wei Sun (Boulder, Colo.), Anil Paul Thoppil (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Anne Maria Vasu (Erie, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods that make use of cluster-level redundancy within a distributed storage management system to address various node-level error scenarios are provided. Rather than using a generalized one-size-fits-all approach to reduce complexity, an approach tailored to the node-level error scen...