ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,817, issued on May 20, was assigned to NETAPP INC. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Volume placement failure isolation and reporting" was invented by Wesley R. Witte (Campbell, Calif.) and Youyuan Wu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed for isolating and reporting a volume placement error for a request to place a volume on a storage platform. A volume placement service requests information from a database using an optimized database query to determine an optimal location to place a new volume. The database returns no results. The volume placement service deconstructs the opti...