ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,111, issued on June 24, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Processing of input/output operations within a fault domain of a data storage system" was invented by Dan Aharoni (Brookline, Mass.), Roi Tagar (Haifa, Israel) and Aharon Blitzer (Shoham, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for processing of input/output (I/O) operations within a fault domain of a data storage system. One method comprises receiving I/O write requests from a client application, executing in a first fault domain, to write data; writing, by the storage control system, a primary copy of the data of the I/O write reque...