ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,893, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Dataset integrity protection" was invented by Brett Quinn (Cotuit, Mass.), Doug Lecrone (Hopkinton, Mass.), Paul Linstead (Shrewsbury, Mass.) and Denis Burt (Plymouth, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more aspects of the present disclosure relate to protecting the integrity of datasets stored by a storage array. In embodiments, an input/output (IO) workload is received at a storage array. A restricted access policy is also established for at least one target of one or more IO requests corresponding to the IO workload. Further, access to the at l...