ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,765, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Netlist Inc. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for uniform memory access in a storage cluster" was invented by Hyun Lee (Ladera Ranch, Calif.) and Junkil Ryu (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A node in a network including a plurality of nodes comprises persistent memory; non-persistent memory, a node control device operatively coupled to the persistent memory and the non-persistent memory, a local interface for interfacing with the local server in the UMA node, and a network interface for interfacing with other nodes. The node control device is configured to translate betwee...