ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,243, issued on June 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method and system for disaster recovery management" was invented by Parminder Singh Sethi (Ludhiana, India) and Anay Kishore (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing data availability includes making a first determination by a first security module (FSM) that a first storage area network (SAN) infrastructure in a first data center has experienced a failure. The method also includes generating a secure string based on a first configuration parameter. Further, the method includes appending the secure string to a SAN failure notifi...