Exten Technologies (Mangstor) Assigned Patent

Exten Technologies, Inc., Austin, TX, has been assigned a patent (10,430,336) developed by Enz, Michael, Fargo, ND, and Kamath, Ashwin, Cedar Park, TX, for a “lock-free RAID implementation in multi-queue architecture.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Systems and methods, (including hardware and software) are disclosed where all common RAID storage levels are implemented for multi-queue hardware by isolating RAID stripes to a single central processing unit, (CPU) core affinity. Fixed CPU affinity is used for any piece of data that may be modified. Instead of blocking CPUs that must access or modify a piece of data, the request is efficiently moved to the CPU that owns that data. In this manner the system is completely asynchronous, efficient, and scalable.”

The patent application was filed on April 24, 2017 (15/494,601).