US Patent Issued to HITACHI VANTARA on Jan. 27 for "Storage system with storage controllers to control data input and output between a host apparatus and a storage drive in normal and degraded operation states" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,078, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Storage system with storage controllers to control data input and output between a host apparatus and a storage drive in normal and degraded operation states" was invented by Hiroka Ihara (Tokyo), Sadahiro Sugimoto (Tokyo) and Tomohiro Yoshihara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Storage controllers shift from a normal operation mode to a degraded operation mode in accordance with a command from a management apparatus. Each of the storage controllers in the normal operation mode works in the normal operation state. In transition from the normal operat...