ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,935, issued on June 23, was assigned to EVERPURE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Continuous replication of storage data during physical relocation" was invented by Aaron Dailey (San Jose, Calif.), Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.), Nicole Tselentis (Los Altos, Calif.) and Logan Jennings (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Continuing replication during storage system transportation, including: replicating, between a first storage system and a second storage system, a dataset; connecting, by the first storage system during movement of the first storage system to a new physical location, to a communication network available at...