US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Aug. 12 for "Hierarchical parity protection groups for efficient data recovery" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,688, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Hierarchical parity protection groups for efficient data recovery" was invented by Kuolin Hua (Natick, Mass.), Michael Scharland (Franklin, Mass.), Jiahui Wang (Framingham, Mass.), Peng Yin (Southborough, Mass.), Sean Hu (Westborough, Mass.) and Daohong Wang (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising: detecting a storage device failure in a storage array, the storage array including a plurality of storage devices, the storage device failure being a failure of one or more of the plurality of storage devices; wherein: the plurality of ...