US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 29 for "Port configuration verification system" (American, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,645, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Port configuration verification system" was invented by Krishna Deepak Nuthakki (Bangalore, India), Scott Rowlands (Cumming, Ga.) 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 verifying port connectivity in storage environments. A storage array obtains Fabric Device Management Interface (FDMI) metadata from a switch containing information about World Wide Names (WWNs) associated with host bus adapter (HBA) ports. The storage array analyzes the metadata to determine multiple WWNs associ...