US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 30 for "Storage upgrade compatibility reporting" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,933, issued on June 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Storage upgrade compatibility reporting" was invented by Sohichiroh Arai (Fujisawa, Japan), Tomoaki Kawaoka (Shizuoka, Japan), Kenji Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Kentaro Kajimura (Yokohama, Japan), Hideki Tsuboi (Gifu, Japan), Kenji Kikuchi (Kawaguchi, Japan) and Ryoko Yamashita (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for facilitating storage system upgrades is disclosed. In one embodiment, such a method includes identifying host systems configured to access a storage system. The method identifies a current host code level ...