ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,467, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method to optimize storage partition rediscovery" was invented by Joel Miller (Vacaville, Calif.), Paul Nehse (Livermore, Calif.), Michael Thiels (San Martin, Calif.) and Nassireddine El Yahfoufi (Georgetown, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a storage management system comprising: sending, by a user device manager running at a user space of an operating system, a first request for partition table data to a block device; receiving, by the user device manager, first partition data of the block device; sending, by the user device manager, a s...