ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,179, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods for statistical-based IO write pending aging" was invented by Sandeep Chandrashekhara (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Ramesh Doddaiah (Westborough, Mass.), Mohammed Aamir VT (Bangalore, India) and Mohammed Asher (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for improving storage array performance by using time-series characteristics on both a local storage area (extent-level, or track-level) basis as well as global, system level are disclosed. The time series characteristics are input to an aging model where optimal agin...