ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,640, issued on July 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method and apparatus for determining time series-based asynchronous replicaton cycle time" was invented by Sandeep Chandrashekhara (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Ramesh Doddaiah (Westborough, Mass.), Mohammed Aamir VT (Bangalore, India) and Mohammed Asher (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method comprising: generating a write-on-write distribution for a plurality of data units in a data entity, the write-on-write distribution including a plurality of buckets, each bucket corresponding to a different write-on-write time range, each bucket having a re...