ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,682, issued on July 15, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Computer system and redundant element configuration method" was invented by Takaki Nakamura (Tokyo), Hideo Saito (Tokyo), Naruki Kurata (Tokyo) and Takahiro Yamamoto (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Reliability in a storage system can be easily and appropriately improved. In a computer system including a storage system configured to provide a plurality of instances in any one of a plurality of subzones divided by risk boundaries, a processor of the computer system is configured to make a storage controller that controls I/O processing for a volume b...