Atto Technology Assigned Patent

Atto Technology, Inc., Amherst, NY, has been assigned a patent (11474704) developed by Doedline, Jr., Thomas J., West Seneca, NY, Rogers, Paul C., East Amherst, NY, Tallau,, Stephen W., Amherst, NY, and Snell, David A., Youngstown, NY, for “target path selection for storage controllers“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A RAID controller attached to a storage network can detect the presence of multiple pathways to the same physical storage device. A path collection module can dynamically maintain all valid pathways to all attached storage devices. A path selection module can automatically and dynamically balance and rebalance desired paths to each storage device so as to simultaneoly optimize data flow and provide continuity of I/O service throughout the attached storage network.”

The patent application was filed on 2013-03-12 (13/797317).