ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,738, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Synchronized mapping for cache-aware load balancing across multiple host devices" was invented by Peniel Charles (Bangalore, India), Venkatesh Doddamane Nagaraj (Bangalore, India) and Amit Pundalik Anchi (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus in one embodiment comprises at least one processing device configured to store a mapping for each of a plurality of logical storage devices of a storage system, the mapping for a given one of the logical storage devices assigning different ranges of logical block addresses of that logical storag...