US Patent Issued to Dell Products on March 18 for "Systems and methods for establishing scalable storage targets" (Massachusetts, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,177, issued on March 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods for establishing scalable storage targets" was invented by Xiangping Chen (Harvard, Mass.), Walter A. O'Brien III (Westborough, Mass.) and Xunce Zhou (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for facilitating a connection to a storage volume, that includes receiving, by a storage manager, an access request from compute node, where the access request includes a storage volume identifier associated with the storage volume, performing a lookup, in a target database, to identify a target entry that includes the storage volume...