Qnap Assigned Patent

Qnap Systems, Inc., New Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (11,436,184) developed by Hsu, Chin-Hsing, New Taipei, Taiwan, for “multi-controller storage system and storage apparatus.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A multi-controller storage system and a storage apparatus for performing data access to a non-volatile memory with multiple controllers are provided. When a host transmits a command to a first controller and the first controller assigns the command to a second controller, the first controller transfers data from the host to the second controller through the first controller through the non-volatile memory express over remote direct memory access protocol (NVMe over RDMA) to directly write the data into the second controller.”

The patent application was filed on April 28, 2020 (16/860,167).