ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,203, issued on July 1, was assigned to Daedalus Cloud LLC (Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y.).

"Read request response for reconstructed data in a degraded drive" was invented by Stuart John Inglis (Cambridge, New Zealand), Sheridan John Lambert (Cambridge, New Zealand), Adam Gworn Kit Fleming (Cambridge, New Zealand) and Daniel James Nicholas Stokes (Cambridge, New Zealand).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising: receiving a request to read data stored in an array of drives; determining that the data is stored on one or more degraded drives in the array; reconstructing the data from one or more drives in the array other than the degra...