ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,620, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Low hiccup time fail-back in active-active dual-node storage systems with large writes" was invented by Alexander Shknevsky (Fair Lawn, N.J.), Oran Baruch (Tel Aviv, Israel), Maor Rahamim (Ramla, Israel) and Vamsi K. Vankamamidi (Hopkinton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for limiting or reducing storage accessibility "hiccups" in active-active clustered systems that perform large writes. The techniques can include executing, by a surviving, failover, or rebooted node of an active-active clustered system, a specialized recovery protocol th...