ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,349, issued on June 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Multiple metric-based workload balancing between storage resources" was invented by Chi Chen (Chengdu, China) and Huijuan Fan (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises a processing device configured to determine a workload level of each storage resource in a set of two or more storage resources, the workload levels being based at least in part on a processor performance metric, a memory performance metric, and a load performance metric. The processing device is also configured to identify a performance imbalance rate for the set...