ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,873, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Forwarding operations to bypass persistent memory" was invented by Ananthan Subramanian (San Ramon, Calif.), Matthew Fontaine Curtis-Maury (Apex, N.C.), Vinay Devadas (Apex, N.C.) and Bulli Venkata Rajesh Vipperla (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for forwarding operations to bypass persistent memory. A modify operation, targeting an object, may be received at a persistent memory tier of a node. If a forwarding policy indicates that forwarding is not enabled for the modify operation and the target object, then the modify o...