US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 30 for "Systems and methods for high-availability witness sleds" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,216, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and methods for high-availability witness sleds" was invented by Ravishankar Kanakapura N (Bangalore, India), Ramesha He (Bangalore, India), Rishi Mukherjee (Bangalore, India) and Suman Lal Banik (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provide failover operations for witness sled hardware installed in a chassis. The chassis may include data storage devices and Information Handling Systems (IHSs), each storing data redundantly to the storage devices, such as in a vSAN. A primary witness sled provides witness functions,...