US Patent Issued to Lenovo Global Technology (United States) on March 11 for "Systems and methods for implementing maintenance operations on storage devices in place of drive-based maintenance routines" (North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,680, issued on March 11, was assigned to Lenovo Global Technology (United States) Inc. (Morrisville, N.C.).

"Systems and methods for implementing maintenance operations on storage devices in place of drive-based maintenance routines" was invented by David Cosby (Morrisville, N.C.), Wilson Velez (Morrisville, N.C.), Patrick Caporale (Morrisville, N.C.) and Zezhi Hu (Morrisville, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for implementing maintenance operations on storage devices in place of drive-based maintenance operations are disclosed. According to an aspect, a system includes a storage controller configured to recei...