US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 15 for "Managing reclaim unit handles to control access to a flexible data placement drive" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,704, issued on July 15, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Managing reclaim unit handles to control access to a flexible data placement drive" was invented by Amitai Alkalay (Kadima, Israel), Vamsi K. Vankamamidi (Hopkinton, Mass.), Lior Kamran (Richon LeZion, Israel) and Steven A. Morley (Mendon, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques manage data within storage equipment having a Flexible Data Placement (FDP) drive. The techniques involve configuring the storage equipment to support storing data in reclaim units of the FDP drive according to an initial group of reclaim unit handles. The techniques furthe...