US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 10 for "Predictive VTOC failure analysis" (California, Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,333, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Predictive VTOC failure analysis" was invented by Marc D Casad (Pleasanton, Calif.), Carrie J. da Silva (San Jose, Calif.), Michael Koester (Hollister, Calif.) and Kevin L Miner (Lake City, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An approach is disclosed that identifies an anomaly in a Volume Table of Contents Index (VTOC Index) that is associated with a Direct Access Storage Device (DASD) Volume Table of Contents (VTOC) that corresponds to a DASD. The approach operates to automatically correct the VTOC Index based on the identified anomaly." ...