US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Aug. 26 for "Leveraging recurrent patterns of RAID members distribution for efficient array growth" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,618, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Leveraging recurrent patterns of RAID members distribution for efficient array growth" was invented by Kuolin Hua (Natick, Mass.) and Kunxiu Gao (Boxborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A predictable distribution of protection group members and spares in compliance with RAID requirements is maintained as a drive cluster is scaled-up and eventually split into multiple clusters. Conditions under which addition of new disks using rotation-relocation and cell borrowing would create recurrent patterns of distribution of protection group members are reco...