ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,608, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Centralized security policy administration using NVMe-oF zoning" was invented by Claudio Desanti (Santa Cruz, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods extend Non-Volatile Memory express over Fabric (NVMe-oF) zoning to enable security policy administration and authentication of NVMe-oF entities in a centralized manner without requiring per-connection provisioning administered by a Centralized Discovery Controller (CDC). In various embodiments a zone configuration is defined that represents access control rules, which determine which entitie...