ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,958, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Network attached storage (NAS) server placement in a heterogeneous storage cluster" was invented by Vasudevan Subramanian (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for network attached storage (NAS) server placement in a heterogeneous storage cluster. An example system includes at least one processing device including a processor coupled to a memory. The at least one processing device can be configured to implement the following steps: identifying a placement event associated with a NAS asset in a heterogeneous storage clus...