Avalanche Technology Assigned Patent

Avalanche Technology, Inc., Fremont, CA, has been assigned a patent (10,042,758) developed by Asnaashari, Mehdi, Danville, CA, Nemazie, Siamack, Los Altos Hills, CA, and Mandapuram, Anilkumar, San Jose, CA, for a “high availability storage appliance.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A high-availability storage system includes a first storage system and a second storage system. The first storage system includes a first Central Processing Unit, CPU, a first physically-addressed solid state disk, (SSD) and a first non-volatile memory module that is coupled to the first CPU. Similarly, the second storage system includes a second CPU and a second SSD. Upon failure of one of the first or second CPUs, or the storage system with the non-failing CPU continues to be operational and the storage system with the failed CPU is deemed inoperational and the first and second SSDs remain accessible.”

The patent application was filed on April 16, 2015 (14/688,996).