ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,737, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for data management using a disk unit" was invented by Kalaivani Arumugham (San Jose, Calif.), Parag Sarfare (San Jose, Calif.) and Prachi Deskmukh (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data management system can include a disk unit and a set of controllers. The disk unit can contain, at least in part, a set of storage media, a first persistent memory, and a second persistent memory. The set of storage media can be configured to implement a storage space. The set of controllers can be configured to write to the storage space and...