ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,592, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Software RAID provisioning 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 provisioning system includes an operating system having a software RAID multipath plugin coupled to a software RAID driver and an operating system kernel. The software RAID multipath plugin identifies first and second physical storage devices that have been configured by the software RAID driver to provide a so...