ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,900, issued on June 9, was assigned to Saudi Arabian Oil Co. (Dhahran, Saudi Arabia).
"System and method for data protection for storage systems" was invented by Ahmed Saad Alsalim (Dammam, Saudi Arabia).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data protection method and system are provided. At least one computing device provides information representing failure of a drive that is assigned to a RAID group. Available storage on each of a plurality of drives in use in the RAID group is identified and at least one virtual drive is built using at least the available storage. Data associated with the failed drive is provided to the virtual drive(s)...