ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,940, issued on June 23, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"SDS local data path optimization system" was invented by Xiangping Chen (Sherborn, Mass.), Andrew Butcher (Cedar Park, Texas), Shyamkumar T. Iyer (Cedar Park, Texas) and Xunce Zhou (Shrewsbury, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Software Defined Storage (SDS) system includes a memory system, an SDS client subsystem that is coupled to the memory system, and an SDS server subsystem that is coupled to the memory system. The SDS server subsystem establishes a first Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) connection with the SDS client subs...