ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,948, issued on June 23, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method and apparatus for preventing delays in the reception of storage system data" was invented by Niall Geary (Ballinlough, Ireland), Scott Rowlands (Cumming, Ga.) and Igor Fradkin (Sharon, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for use in a storage system including a plurality of storage processors, the method comprising: detecting, by a given one of the plurality of storage processors, a first event that is associated with a communications network, the communications network being arranged to deliver write requests to the storage processor, the ...