US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 30 for "Apparatus, systems and methods for providing input/output (IO) request rerouting" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,934, issued on June 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Apparatus, systems and methods for providing input/output (IO) request rerouting" was invented by Tabor R. Powelson (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Andrew C. M. Hicks (Highland, N.Y.), Ryan Thomas Rawlins (New Paltz, N.Y.) and Pasquale A. Catalano (Wallkill, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus and systems receive an IO reroute request for a first system to reroute an IO request with a target storage device that is disconnected from the first system and provides proxy communication of the IO request with the target storage device on...