ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,503, issued on July 7, was assigned to Cisco Technology Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Unhandled data protection for programmatic input/output routing to datasets with user-defined partitions" was invented by Alexander D. James (Sammamish, Wash.), Vinayak Bhakta (San Jose, Calif.), Venkatasubramanian Jayaraman (Issaquah, Wash.), Ganesh Jothikumar (Los Altos, Calif.), Andrew John Peters (Sammamish, Wash.) and Amy Sutedja (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for implementing programmatic input/output (I/O) routing to datasets with user-defined partitions while providing unhandled data protection. As discl...