ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,498,866, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Comprehensive load balancing in a host device through consistent path selection for data copy offload" was invented by Rimpesh Patel (Bangalore, India) and Amit Pundalik Anchi (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus in one embodiment includes at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The at least one processing device is configured to maintain in a host device a data structure characterizing an ordered arrangement of available initiator-target pairs corresponding to respective paths between the host de...