ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,506, issued on April 7, was assigned to EVERPURE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Storage system cloning" was invented by Sergey Zhuravlev (Bothell, Wash.), Naveen Neelakantam (Mountain View, Calif.), Gregory McNutt (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Yuval Frandzel (Foster City, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cloning storage systems in a cloud computing environment, including: receiving a request to create a cloud-based storage system; retrieving, from cloud-based object storage, one or more objects to include in the cloud-based storage system; and creating the cloud-based storage system, including storing, in block storage of the cloud-base...