US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 4 for "Device control block scan for channel recovery actions" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,871, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Device control block scan for channel recovery actions" was invented by Robert Edward Galbraith (Rochester, Minn.), Martin Taubert (Gaertringen, Germany), Jana Christine Migge (Aidlingen, Germany) and Francis Gassert (Monroe, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for implementing enhanced Device Control Block (DCB) scan recovery for channel recovery actions. A disclosed method comprises identifying channels to be recovered and creating a DCB bit array reflecting each DCB to be sc...