US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Sept. 1 for "Configuring asymmetric logical unit access states for paths" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,554, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Configuring asymmetric logical unit access states for paths" was invented by Timothy Andrew Moran (Southampton, Great Britain), Mark Keith Elliott (Hampshire, Great Britain), David Holman (Medstead, Great Britain) and Miles Mulholland (Eastleigh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, computer program product, and computer system are provided for configuring asymmetric logical unit access (ALUA) states for paths in a multipath storage system. The method includes providing storage feature indications for paths between a host ...