ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,656, issued on April 22, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Optimal memory slot size selection for random read miss IO operations" was invented by Ramesh Doddaiah (Westborough, Mass.), Kaustubh Sahasrabudhe (Westborough, Mass.) and Malak Alshawabkeh (Franklin, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A random read miss slot size selection engine is configured to select between multiple memory slot sizes to optimize slot size allocations for random read miss IO operations. Upon receipt of an IO operation that is a random read miss IO operation, the slot size selection engine obtains a metadata page encompassing multiple ...