ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,383, issued on March 24, was assigned to Avago Technologies International Sales Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Method and system for hardware accelerated online capacity expansion" was invented by Arun Prakash Jana (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Solutions for managing RAID logical devices. Some solutions provide enhanced online capacity expansion for virtual disks on RAID drives, for example by taking advantage of the hardware capabilities to expand a virtual disk stripe by stripe. Some solutions provide increase hardware automation, which can reduce firmware load and/or provide more efficient input-output operations (IO)...