ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,745, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Signature-based IO user connections between IO users and storage volumes" was invented by Shoham Levy (Ra'anana, Israel) and Michal Sara Davidson (Beit Shemesh, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for creating secure IO (input/output) user connections between IO users and storage volumes. One method comprises establishing an IO user connection between a processor-based IO user and at least a portion of a storage volume on a storage array; obtaining IO user context information associated with the IO user connection, wherein the IO ...