ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,961, issued on July 22, was assigned to Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).
"Watermarked IO diverts for virtual disks" was invented by Arun Prakash Jana (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Solutions for managing RAID virtual disks. Some solutions enable increased use of hardware circuitry to schedule and perform IO on a virtual drive, providing for more efficient IO. In some cases, this can be accomplished by notifying the hardware of precise regions of a virtual disk affected by the maintenance operation and any given time. The hardware then, can continue to perform host IO on portions of the l...