ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,624, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Techniques for node resource balancing" was invented by Vasudevan Subramanian (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Gajanan S. Natu (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In at least one embodiment, processing can include: configuring a file server on a first node of a storage system, the file server including a file system configured on a volume; configuring a first path exposing the volume to the file server as active-optimized (AO) and configuring a second path exposing the volume to the file server as active-non-optimized (ANO); for the volume, while the first p...