ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,567, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method and apparatus for management of concurrent dependent writes" was invented by Michael Barber (Pearland, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising: transmitting, from a host device to a storage system, a set of P write requests, where P is a positive integer greater than one; waiting until an oldest one of the set of P write requests is positively acknowledged by the storage system; in response to detecting that the oldest one of the set of P write requests has been positively acknowledged, generating a new write request including a ser...