Skyera/WDC/HGST Assigned Patent

Skyera, LLC, San Jose, CA, acquired by Western Digital Corp. and included in HGST, Inc., has been assigned a patent (9,645,940) developed by Danilak, Radoslav, Cupertino, CA, and Radke, William, Los Gatos, CA, for a “apparatus and method for accessing a non-volatile memory blade using multiple controllers in a non-volatile memory based storage device.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “Various systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media, for accessing a storage device are described. In certain example embodiments, an active/active fault tolerant storage device comprising two or more controllers may be implemented. In one embodiment, each controller may be coupled to the non-volatile memory, (NVM) blades comprising the non-volatile memory, (NVM) storage medium. In one example implementation, a standardized protocol, such as Peripheral Component Interconnect Express protocol may be used for communicating amongst the various components of the controller and also the NVM storage medium.“

The patent application was filed on May 9, 2016 (15/149,706).