US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Feb. 10 for "Single hop approach for distributed block storage via a network virtualization device" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,438, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Single hop approach for distributed block storage via a network virtualization device" was invented by Deepak Agarwal (Redmond, Wash.), Travis John Portz (Seattle), Qiang Wang (Bellevue, Wash.), Haining Mo (Kenmore, Wash.) and Kent Lee (Ladera Ranch, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network virtualization device receives a storage request from a compute instance executed by a host machine separate from the network virtualization device, the storage request comprising data to be stored. Responsive to receiving the storage request, the ...