ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,708, issued on July 15, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Allocation, distribution, and configuration of volumes in storage systems" was invented by Tobias Flitsch (San Jose, Calif.), Shayan Askarian Namaghi (San Jose, Calif.) and Siamak Nazari (Mountain View, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Configuring, distributing, and managing virtual volumes in a storage system are automated and simplified so that administrators may be relieved of such tasks and non-storage administrators can make use of the storage technology. Considering operating system and application requirements, a cloud-based storage management in...