US Patent Issued to Dell Products on June 3 for "Disk array enclosure (DAE) firmware-based systems and methods for firmware upgrades" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,645, issued on June 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Disk array enclosure (DAE) firmware-based systems and methods for firmware upgrades" was invented by Bing Liu (Tianjin, China), Joel Miller (Vacaville, Calif.) and Daniel Savilonis (Framingham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request is received to upgrade firmware for disk array enclosures (DAEs). Each DAE is reachable by a host server using first and second paths. The first path extends from a first port of a first HBA of the host server to each of a set of first input/output modules (IOMs) in the DAEs. The first IOMs have first SAS expanders to whi...