US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Dec. 16 for "Sustainable redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID)" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,012, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Sustainable redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID)" was invented by John S. Werner (Fishkill, N.Y.), Pasquale A. Catalano (Wallkill, N.Y.), Arkadiy O. Tsfasman (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.), Christopher V DeRobertis (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), Ryan Thomas Rawlins (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Andrew C. M. Hicks (Highland, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer system, and a computer program product are provided for operating a primary and a backup RAID storage array. A disk drive configuration is loaded into a disk controller in a...