Infortrend Technology Assigned Patent

Infortrend Technology, Inc., New Taipei, Taiwan, has been assigned a patent (12265739) developed by Wu; Yen-Chen, Lin; Ying-Wen, and Hsiao; Chih-Min, New Taipei, Taiwan, for “data access interface unit and the method for processing I/O requests.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “The present invention discloses a data access interface unit comprising: a physical storage device controller for receiving a first control signal from a first storage virtualization controller, and accordingly determining the first storage virtualization controller as the primary controller, and generating a first selection signal; a selector for receiving the first selection signal, and accordingly selecting data and signals from the first storage virtualization controller; and a clock generation circuit for providing a dedicated clock signal to the physical storage device, where when the physical storage device controller receives a re-set signal from a second storage virtualization controller, the physical storage device controller determines the second storage virtualization controller as the new primary controller, and accordingly generates a second selection signal so as to control the selector to select data and signals from the second storage virtualization controller.”

The patent application was filed on 2023-11-22 (18/516966).