ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,529, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"System and method for storage based path discovery" was invented by Arieh Don (Newton, Mass.), Scott Rowlands (Cumming, Ga.) and Alexander Izikson (Gan Yavne, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computing system for processing fabric device management interface (FDMI) information about one or more initiator devices from a fibre channel (FC) switch to allow a storage array to associate host bus adapter worldwide name (HBA-WWN) port information with one or more hostnames corresponding to the one or more initiator devic...