Igneous Assigned Patent

Igneous Systems, Inc., Seattle, WA, has been assigned a patent (9,361,046) developed by Martin, Timothy Rex, Hughes, Jeffrey Douglas, and Bhageshpur, Kiran V., Seattle, WA, for a “wireless data storage chassis .”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Various embodiments are directed to a data storage chassis for storing a plurality of non-specific storage drives, corresponding wireless controllers, and one or more radio adapters. The storage drives are operative to communicate with another network device over a network. A storage drive wirelessly communicates with other storage drives of the chassis, as well as one or more radio adapters of the chassis. The wireless controller corresponding to a storage drive is operative to wirelessly communicate with other wireless controllers corresponding to other storage drives and also with one or more radio adapters via wireless waveguides of the chassis. The one or more radio adapters are operative to communicate with other network devices external to the chassis and serve as access points to the chassis. Because the storage drives, the corresponding controllers, and the radio adapters communicate via wireless signals transmitted along waveguides, the chassis is a wireless chassis.“

The patent application was filed on May 11, 2015 (14/709,043).