US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 22 for "Quadrant matrix based priority calls for failed drives replacement" (Arizona, New York, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,382, issued on April 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Quadrant matrix based priority calls for failed drives replacement" was invented by Maunik Patel (Tucson, Ariz.), Tara Astigarraga (Fairport, N.Y.), Jimmy Pazhoor John (Cary, N.C.) and Kieron Dirk Anthony Hinds (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach for recommending a prioritized list of replacement of failed drives. The approach receives data associated with failed drives from data centers. The approach segregates the data into variable groups based on a data type. The approach creates a logical layer of entry lists...