US Patent Issued to Western Digital Technologies on Feb. 24 for "Discovery controller with feature discovery for data storage devices" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,096, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Western Digital Technologies Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Discovery controller with feature discovery for data storage devices" was invented by Rakesh Singh (Bangalore, India) and Swarup Kulkarni (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for a discovery controller configured with feature discovery for exposed data storage devices. The discovery controller may receive a discovery command from a host system that includes a token value, where the token values map to different storage device configurations among the exposed storage devices. The discovery controller compares ...