US Patent Issued to NETAPP on Nov. 11 for "Sequential write based durable file system" (North Carolina, California, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,467, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to NETAPP INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Sequential write based durable file system" was invented by Maxim Gerard Smith (Durham, N.C.), John William Haskins Jr. (Wake Forest, N.C.), David Anthony Slik (Northridge, Calif.) and Keith Arnold Smith (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A durable file system has been designed for storage devices that do not support write in place and/or that are susceptible to errors or failures. The durable file system also facilitates organization and access of large objects (e.g., gigabytes to terabytes in size). Regardless of whether target storage devices ar...