ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,688,099, issued on July 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Method and apparatus for node-pair enclosure replacement" was invented by Earl Medeiros (Fall River, Mass.), Julie Zhivich (Westborough, Mass.), Jerome Cartmell (Millis, Mass.), James Guyer (Northboro, Mass.) and Ramesh Doddaiah (Westborough, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for online replacement of a node enclosure are provided. A storage array system includes a node-pair housed in a node enclosure. Each node of the node-pair are be linked to a network and further linked to each other by external interconnects, independent of ...