US Patent Issued to HITACHI VANTARA on Sept. 16 for "Storage controller and storage controller control method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,193, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LTD. (Kanagawa-Ken, Japan).

"Storage controller and storage controller control method" was invented by Tomoya Murotani (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To replace a storage controller without stopping a host and without losing data related to IO processing from the host. A storage controller sets, in a port management table, a first host path definition between the host and first address information in a controller unit in addition to a second host path definition between the host and second address information in a controller unit. The storage controller sets, in a route...