US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on Oct. 14 for "Reservation of PCIe slots for management by a raid driver" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,557, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Reservation of PCIe slots for management by a raid driver" was invented by Anoop Pulickal Aravindakshan (Karnataka, India) and Viswas G (Kerala, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method including a PCIe slot, a storage device coupled to the PCIe slot, and a host server including a processor and a non-transitory memory including machine-readable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to: load a RAID driver; receive, by the RAID driver, a probe call identifying the PCIe slot; determine, based on a slot res...