US Patent Issued to EMC IP HOLDING on Feb. 4 for "Storage layout of protection pool of a RAID storage system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,911, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Storage layout of protection pool of a RAID storage system" was invented by Paul Nehse (Livermore, Calif.), Michael Thiels (San Martin, Calif.) and Devendra Kulkarni (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A redundant array of independent disks (raid) array can include one or more virtual disks representing a raid configuration of the raid array. Each of the one or more virtual disks includes a number of physical extents (PEs), where a first PE and a second PE of the PEs have a same size. The first PE is located at a first storage disk o...