American Megatrends Assigned Patent

American Megatrends, Inc., Norcross, GA, has been assigned a patent (9,063,854) developed by Subramanian, Srikumar, Newark, CA, Gopalakrishnan, Sankarji, and Chatterjee, Paresh, Fremont, CA, for a “systems and methods for cluster RAID data consistency.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”A first RAID module is added to a first RAID controller and a second RAID module is added to a second RAID controller. An array of physical disks is partitioned into two partitions across the array of physical disks. The first partition is assigned to the first RAID module and the second partition is exposed to the second RAID module. Each of the RAID modules exposes their respective partitions to their associated RAID controller as a single array. Each RAID module further receives I/O from its respective RAID controller, and translates the I/O to access its associated partition.“

The patent application was filed on April 18, 2012 (13/450,065).