ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,326, issued on June 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Service level objective based priority processing of control path operations" was invented by Jayanth Shimoga Devappa (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A VASA provider is configured to include a control channel that is able to provide differentiated service to control path operations. The VASA provider maps a first set of data path service level objectives (SLOs) available on a storage system to a second set of control path SLOs. The VASA provider maintains a set of control path operation queues, such that a separate control path operation qu...