ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,220, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Software raid multipath plugin/driver communication system" was invented by Nikhith Ganigarakoppal Kantharaju (Hassan, India), Abhijit Shashikant Mirajkar (Bangalore, India) and Ajay Sukumaran Nair Syamala Bai (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A software RAID multipath plugin/driver communication system includes physical storage devices that are configured to provide a software RAID logical storage system, a software RAID driver subsystem that presents an active path and a failover path to the RAID logical storage system, and a software RA...