US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on Aug. 12 for "System and methods for computing parity information in a raid array" (Indian Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,705, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"System and methods for computing parity information in a raid array" was invented by Anoop Pulickal Aravindakshan (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A redundant disk array may include redundant information to facilitate rebuilding the array in the event of a disk failure. A host processor may allocate buffers in an accelerator memory. Data may be moved from one or more storage devices to the buffers. An accelerator engine may perform parity calculations required to rebuild the array based on data in the buffers without requiring a host...