US Patent Issued to SOFTIRON on July 21 for "ISCSI load balancing for multiple SDS LUNs" (American, Czech Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,588, issued on July 21, was assigned to SOFTIRON Ltd. (London).

"ISCSI load balancing for multiple SDS LUNs" was invented by Milan Kovacik (Brno, Czech Republic), Kenneth Van Alstyne (Mechanicsville, Va.) and Stephen Hardwick (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes a processor and instructions to cause the processor to identify a client to connect a logical unit number (LUN) in a software defined system (SDS) through a mesh network through gateway nodes. The mesh network includes Asymmetric Logical Unit Access (ALUA) port groups, each ALUA port group including possible connection to each of the LUNs and th...