ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,652, issued on July 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Dynamic independent software-defined storage (SDS) resource adjustment system" was invented by William Price Dawkins (Lakeway, Texas) and Xiangping Chen (Sherborn, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A dynamic independent SDS resource adjustment system includes a resource management system coupled to compute nodes and storage system(s) including storage devices. The resource management system monitors a first subset of resources the compute node(s) that are being used to provide an SDS system using the storage devices that are assigned to the first subset...