ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,776, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Direct-attached storage device software raid crash dump system" was invented by Nikhith Ganigarakoppal Kantharaju (Hassan, India), Abhijit Shashikant Mirajkar (Bangalore, India) and Ajay Sukumaran Nair Syamala Bai (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A direct-attached storage device software RAID crash dump system includes a chassis housing a software RAID subsystem coupled to physical storage devices, controller devices, and a hypervisor subsystem. The software RAID subsystem presents a primary controller device to the hypervisor subsystem as ...