ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,612, issued on May 27, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Restricted transport storage cartridges" was invented by Christopher Anthony Grant Hillier (Ft. Collins, Colo.) and Curtis C. Ballard (Eaton, Colo.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a computer receives a command to transport a storage cartridge in a storage system from a physical storage slot to a storage drive, and determines whether the storage cartridge is associated with a restricted transport indication set by a configuration operation in the storage system. In response to determining that the storage cartridge is as...