ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,739,300, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Network set generation for a data storage system based on network topology dependencies" was invented by Ziv Dor (Rishon Letzion, Israel), Rivka Mayraz Matosevich (Zichron Ya'acov, Israel), Igal Moshkovich (Even Yehuda, Israel), Avner Gidron (Yokneam Illit, Israel) and Sara Dakwar (Fassuta, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus comprises at least one processing device configured to identify a plurality of networks providing connections to a data storage system, to determine network topology dependencies associated with resources shared by di...