ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,595, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Self-descriptive shared memory for metrics collection" was invented by Dazhi Dong (Shanghai), Yuval Harduf (Yahud, Israel), Venoy Qiang Ma (Chengdu, China) and Xing Chen (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a data storage system to obtain metrics data describing performance and capacities of the data storage system and provide the metrics data to external metrics users includes, by a metrics data producer, storing metrics data in a data region of a shared memory, and populating a metadata region of the shared memory with metadata ...