ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,771, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Host device configured to control active-standby designations for multiple storage systems using inter-system response times" was invented by Vinay G. Rao (Bangalore, India), Sanjib Mallick (Bangalore, India), Benjamin Yoder (Chandler, Ariz.) and Arieh Don (Newton, Mass.).

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 obtain, in a host device, inter-system response time information based at least in part on one...