ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,749, issued on May 20, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Redundant storage across namespaces with dynamically allocated capacity in data storage devices" was invented by Sridhar Sabesan (Bangalore, India), Dinesh Babu (Bangalore, India) and Pavan Gururaj (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and data storage devices for redundant storage of data across namespaces with dynamic capacity allocation are described. Data storage devices may support multiple host connections to multiple namespaces allocated in their non-volatile storage medium according to a storage protocol,...