Microchip Technology Assigned Patent

Microchip Technology Inc., Chandler, AZ, has been assigned a patent (12443557) developed by Pulickal Aravindakshan; Anoop, Karnataka, India, and G; Viswas, Kerala, India, for a “reservation of PCIe slots for management by a RAID driver.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system and method including a PCIe slot, a storage device coupled to the PCIe slot, and a host server including a processor and a non-transitory memory including machine-readable instructions that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to: load a RAID driver; receive, by the RAID driver, a probe call identifying the PCIe slot; determine, based on a slot reservation table stored in a non-volatile RAM accessible by the RAID driver, whether the storage device coupled to the PCIe slot is managed by the RAID driver; send, when the PCIe slot is identified in the slot reservation table, a response indicating that the RAID driver will control access to the storage device coupled to the PCIe slot; and send, when the PCIe slot is not identified in the slot reservation table, a response indicating that the RAID driver will not control access to the storage device.”

The patent application was filed on 2023-12-04 (18/527579).