ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,969, issued on April 29, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic throttling of input/output queues in a data storage device array" was invented by Rahul Gandhi Dhatchinamoorthy (Bangalore, India), Kumar Ranjan (Bangalore, India) and Senthil Kumar Veluswamy (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for dynamic throttling of input/output queues in data storage device arrays are described. Data storage devices are connected through the slots and corresponding lanes of a storage interface switch. A storage controller uses a delay inserted between host submission queues and ...