US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 23 for "Storage device swap in a multiple computing cluster environment using cross system communication" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,808, issued on June 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Storage device swap in a multiple computing cluster environment using cross system communication" was invented by Tariq Hanif (Lagrangeville, N.Y.), Tabor R. Powelson (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Dale F Riedy (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Storage device swap in a multiple computing cluster environment using cross system communication includes sending, by a first host device of a first computing cluster of a plurality of computing clusters, a swap trigger command to one or more storage devices shared across the plurality of ...