ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,176, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Persistent key-value store and journaling system" was invented by Sudheer Kumar Vavilapalli (San Jose, Calif.), Asif Imtiyaz Pathan (San Jose, Calif.), Parag Sarfare (San Jose, Calif.), Nikhil Mattankot (Pleasanton, Calif.), Stephen Wu (Sacramento, Calif.) and Amit Borase (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for implementing a persistent key-value store for caching client data, journaling, and/or crash recovery. The persistent key-value store may be hosted as a primary cache that provides read and write access to key-value ...