US Patent Issued to NetApp on Sept. 23 for "Distributed control plane for facilitating communication between a container orchestration platform and a distributed storage architecture" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,021, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Distributed control plane for facilitating communication between a container orchestration platform and a distributed storage architecture" was invented by Praveen Kumar Hasti (Acton, Mass.) and Christopher Alan Busick (Littleton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for implementing a distributed control plane to facilitate communication between a container orchestration platform and a distributed storage architecture. The distributed storage architecture hosts worker nodes that manage distributed storage that can be made accessible to...