US Patent Issued to SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 10 for "Distributed data storage system with peer-to-peer optimization" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,475, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to SEAGATE TECHNOLOGY LLC (Fremont, Calif.).

"Distributed data storage system with peer-to-peer optimization" was invented by Jason Wayne Kinsey (Longmont, Colo.), Hemant Vitthalrao Mane (Pune, India), Niranjan Anant Pol (Pune, India), Marc Timothy Jones (Longmont, Colo.) and Jason Matthew Feist (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for offloading upstream processing tasks to peer groups of downstream data storage devices. A peer control circuit forms a peer group of storage devices in response to a detected processing bottleneck associated with a network controller. One...