ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,037, issued on March 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Intelligent array IO path management" was invented by Scott Rowlands (Cumming, Ga.), Krishna Deepak Nuthakki (Bangalore, India) and Arieh Don (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more aspects of the present disclosure relate to dynamically managing input/output (IO) paths in a storage network environment. In embodiments, IO operations received at a storage array port are monitored. For example, the storage array can receive the IO operations from one or more hosts. In addition, a number of failing IO operations at the port of the storage ...