ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,300, issued on April 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Techniques for efficiently transitioning object groups to low RPO replication mode" was invented by Prakash Venkatanarayanan (Framingham, Mass.), Girish Sheelvant (Hopkinton, Mass.), Sathya Krishna Murthy (Morrisville, N.C.) and Nagapraveen Veeravenkata Seela (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques can include: establishing an asynchronous replication configuration for a replication session of a source volume group VG1 and a target volume group VG2; and performing processing to transition the replication session to a low RPO (recovery point ...