ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,828, issued on March 25, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Forwarding incoming IO to SCM namespaces" was invented by Bing Liu (Tianjin, China), Parmeshwr Prasad (Bangalore, India) and Rahul Deo Vishwakarma (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for intelligently routing IO to a storage class memory (SCM) namespace are disclosed. A configuration for a namespace is determined, where the configuration indicates a type of IO that the namespace is structured to handle. Details about the configuration of the namespace are stored in a repository. A forwarding rule is generated based on the nam...