US Patent Issued to Hitachi Vantara on June 2 for "Storage system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,631, issued on June 2, was assigned to Hitachi Vantara Ltd. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Storage system" was invented by Tomoki Shoji (Tokyo), Masanori Takada (Tokyo) and Katsuya Tanaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage system includes a plurality of drive slots into which a drive storing data is insertable and one or more controllers including a processor. At least a part of the plurality of drive slots is a common slot into which a first device of a different type from the drive is insertable. A port of the controller at a connection destination of the drive from the common slot and a port of the controller at a connection dest...