US Patent Issued to NetApp on Sept. 30 for "External distributed storage layer upgrade" (California, Colorado, North Carolina, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,116, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"External distributed storage layer upgrade" was invented by Brendan Kerr (San Jose, Calif.), Avesh Kumar Agarwal (Cary, N.C.), Christopher Alan Busick (Littleton, Mass.), Christopher Lee Cason (Boulder, Colo.), Kyle Gene Knutson (Boulder, Colo.) and Mohinish Vinnakota (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for upgrading an external distributed storage layer that provides storage services to containerized applications hosted within a container hosting platform. An operator within the container hosting platform is custom conf...