ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,179, issued on June 30, was assigned to EVERPURE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Cloud-based replication to cloud-external systems" was invented by Ethan L. Miller (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Andrew R. Bernat (Mountain View, Calif.), Benjamin Borowiec (San Jose, Calif.), Alan S. Driscoll (Fremont, Calif.), Steve Hodgson (Cobham, Great Britain), Ganesh Ramanarayanan (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Malcolm Sharpe (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Replicating data to the cloud includes a first dataset that is replicated from a first storage subsystem to the cloud, with only the changes made to the first dataset since a previous repl...