ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,946, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Software raid/management trusted storage-device-based communication system" was invented by Dharma Bhushan Ramaiah (Bangalore, India), Vineeth Radhakrishnan (Bangalore, India), Shinose Abdul Rahiman (Bangalore, India), Rama Rao Bisa (Bangalore, India), Nikhith Ganigarakoppal Kantharaju (Hassan, India) and Sumalatha Pagadala (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A software Redundant Array of Independent Disk (RAID)/management trusted storage-device-based communication system includes a chassis housing a software Redundant Array of Independent Disk ...