US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 11 for "Self-healing hard disk drive system" (Utah, Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,222,811, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Self-healing hard disk drive system" was invented by Gregory Martin Allen (Layton, Utah), Frank Widjaja Yu (Austin, Texas), Walter A. O'Brien III (Westborough, Mass.) and Marcelo Silva Saraiva (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A self-healing Hard Disk Drive (HDD) system includes a chassis housing an HDD device self-healing subsystem coupled to an HDD data storage system that includes a plurality of HDD data storage resources. The HDD device self-healing subsystem prevents data from being stored on a first HDD data storage resource that is inclu...