Atto Assigned Patent

Atto Technology, Inc., Amherst, NY, has been assigned a patent (8,504,770) developed by David J. Cuddihy, Hamburg, NY, Christopher M. Kalisiak, North Tonawanda, NY, and David A. Snell, Youngstown, NY, for a “system and method for representation of target devices in a storage router.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The present invention provides an improved device, system and method for representation of target devices in a storage router. In one aspect, a device, system and method are provided for predictive representation of SAS/SATA-based target devices in a storage router corresponding to the physical layout of the target devices. In another aspect, a storage router is communicatively connectable to a plurality of target storage devices. In one embodiment, a router discovery manager or module is configured to discover the physical layout of the target storage devices; a host system interface receives and responds to storage commands; a computer bus interface connects/communicates with SAS and SATA storage; and a plurality of host system interface to target storage device maps correspond to the physical layout of the target storage devices.”

The patent application was filed on Sept. 7, 2011 (13/227,350).