ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,374, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for providing on-demand high-availability service on a storage cluster" was invented by Dmitry Krivenok (Dublin), Yuval Harduf (Yahud, Israel) and Amitai Alkalay (Kadima, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for providing on-demand high-availability service on a storage cluster. A new single-node appliance is added to the storage cluster, the storage cluster includes one or more original single-node appliances and an internal remote system configured to facilitate intra-cluster orc...