ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,526, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Multi-path layer configured for proactive path state changes" was invented by Peniel Charles (Bangalore, India), Manikandan Sethuraman (Bangalore, India), Amudha Krishnasamy (Bangalore, India), Venkata Adireddy Padala (Shrewsbury, Mass.) and Vighneshwar Hegde (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to identify, for a given path interconnecting a given host device and a storage system, a set of two or more checkpoints characterizing health of the given path. The processing device is also configure...