ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,394, issued on July 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Selective fabric-less mode for storage system operations" was invented by Kaustubh Sahasrabudhe (Westborough, Mass.), Steve Ivester (Grafton, Mass.) and Ramesh Doddaiah (Westborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure relate to optimizing atomic operations in storage arrays by selectively enabling fabric-less mode based on device access patterns. In embodiments, whether multi-path software is enabled is determined, and device-level access control mappings are analyzed to identify candidates for fabric-less mode operation. ...