ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,314, issued on May 13, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Storage management system and method" was invented by Xiaobo Zhang (Beijing), Rongrong Shang (Beijing), Chun Ma (Beijing), Amitai Alkalay (Kadima, Israel) and Vamsi Vankamamidi (Hopkinson, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for determining that one non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) drive of a pair of NVRAM drives of a storage system is offline, thus defining an offline NVRAM drive and an online NVRAM drive. A virtual disk may be generated on a plurality of solid-state disks (SSDs) of th...