ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,192, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for network interface controller based data migration" was invented by Boris Glimcher (Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing storage of data in a distributed system are disclosed. To manage storage of data in a distributed system, a data processing system may include a network interface controller (NIC). The network interface controller may present emulated storages that may be used for data storage. The emulated storage devices may utilize storage resources of storage devices. Overtime, ...