US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 23 for "Managing a quorum device for a storage system" (British, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,058, issued on June 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Managing a quorum device for a storage system" was invented by Graham Woodward (Manchester, Great Britain), Anuj Chandra (Bengaluru, India), Imran Imtiaz (Manchester, Great Britain) and Miles Mulholland (Eastleigh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A scheme for managing a quorum device for a storage system having network of storage controllers of storage clusters is provided. The scheme may include designating a first storage controller as a volume-based quorum device for a second storage controller. The first storage controller ...