US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 7 for "Providing data storage resiliency" (Chinese, American, Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,687, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Providing data storage resiliency" was invented by Geng Han (Beijing), Vamsi K. Vankamamidi (Hopkinton, Mass.) and Uri Shabi (Tel Mond, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique is directed to providing data storage resiliency. The technique includes, after losing access to a storage device that provides storage to a storage extent, performing a degraded write operation that writes data to a first line of the storage extent. The technique further includes setting a first indicator to indicate that the first line was written to while access to the sto...