US Patent Issued to VIRTUALZ COMPUTING on April 22 for "System and method for mainframe application access to data stored in a non-mainframe environment" (North Carolina, Florida, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,666, issued on April 22, was assigned to VIRTUALZ COMPUTING Corp. (Minneapolis).

"System and method for mainframe application access to data stored in a non-mainframe environment" was invented by Vincent R. Re (Southport, N.C.), Jeanne M. Glass (White Bear Lake, Minn.), Marc S. Sokol (Palm Harbor, Fla.) and Dustin W. Froyum (Golden Valley, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, at a storage client, an input/output (I/O) request from a mainframe application, the input/output (I/O) request being pursuant to a first protocol, the first protocol being a proprietary, mainframe protocol. The storage client may inc...