ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,772, issued on July 8, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Software-RAID-protected boot data vSAN 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 software-RAID-protected boot data vSAN system includes a chassis housing a software RAID subsystem coupled to storage devices and to controller devices. The software RAID subsystem designates a RAID controller device and a vSAN controller device from the controller devices, and configures a first subset of the stor...