ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,043, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for managing storage of data in a set of storage tiers" was invented by Prem Pradeep Motgi (Austin, Texas), Dharmesh M. Patel (Round Rock, Texas) and Manpreet Singh Sokhi (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing storage of data in a set of storage tiers are disclosed. To manage storage of data, data management system may analyze data to identify topic classifications and topic rankings for the data. Data management system may prioritize storage of data in higher performing storage tiers based on t...