ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,873, issued on May 13, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for managing networked storage system resources" was invented by John Jason Sprague (Westford, Mass.), Aashay Yogesh Joshi (Nashua, N.H.), Francisco Jose Assis Rosa (Sudbury, Mass.), Keren Dagan (Lexington, Mass.) and Michael Edward Stapp (Westford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for a networked storage environment are provided. One method includes maintaining by a processor of a management console, a plurality of structured objects representing a plurality of resources in a networked storage system for storing and re...