ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,320, issued on April 15, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Improving data center sustainability through dynamic inclusion and elimination of paths" was invented by Peniel Charles (Bangalore, India), Pramod Kumar Puthanveettil Kurungodan (Bengaluru, India), Owen Crowley (Carrigaline, Ireland) and Dambarudhar Jani (Koraput, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, comprising: selecting an HBA entity that is currently turned on and which is part of a host device, the host device being coupled to a storage array, the host device being configured to read and write data to the storage array; identifying an identif...