ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,879, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Spanned virtual disk initialization with dynamic number of storage controllers" was invented by Abhijit Mirajkar (Bangalore, India) and Rajeev Ranjan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system generates a tree of peripheral component interconnect devices of the information handling system, and determines a count of storage controllers supported by a storage miniport driver based on the tree of the peripheral component interconnect devices. If a list of uninstalled miniport drivers is not empty, then the system deducts a n...