ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,568, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).
"Smart cable for connecting storage drives" was invented by Gerhard Ristau (Coquitlam, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A smart cable for backplane storage management is provided. The cable may include a microcontroller, a power conditioning circuitry to regulate an input voltage from a power supply and provide an output voltage to the microcontroller, a storage device coupled to the microcontroller, a first end to be coupled to one or more storage devices, and a second end to be coupled to a storage controller. The microcontroller may receive s...