US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on May 6 for "Testing drives in a redundant array of independent disks (raid)" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,806, issued on May 6, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Testing drives in a redundant array of independent disks (raid)" was invented by Daniel S. Critchley (Winchester, Great Britain), Roderick Guy Charles Moore (Bournemouth, Great Britain), Tim McCarthy (Eastleigh, Great Britain) and Jonathan William Lewis Short (Eastleigh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computer system are provided for testing drives in a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) array. The method includes: mirroring data from a selected drive to be tested in a RAID array ...