US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Nov. 11 for "Multi-factor security in fiber channel protocol" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,386, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Multi-factor security in fiber channel protocol" was invented by Arieh Don (Newton, Mass.), Efi Levi (Beer Sheba, Israel) and Lior Benisty (Beer Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An identifier, such as a worldwide name, corresponding to a host computing device, or corresponding to a host bus adapter corresponding to the host computing device, may be transmitted to a storage array to configure the storage array to be accessed by the host computing device. The host may request a token from the array. The host may embed the token into a token block...