ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,631, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Network attached storage (NAS) server migration across storage arrays" was invented by Pankaj Kumar Roy (Bangalore, India) and Mithun Mahendra Varma (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are directed to performing NAS server migration (e.g., between arrays or appliances). Such a technique involves, after a NAS server has accessed source volumes on a source array through a tunnel endpoint on the source array, configuring the NAS server to access the source volumes through source devices of the source array in place of the tunnel endpoi...