ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,225, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to EVERPURE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Volume duplication using logical identifiers" was invented by Ethan Miller (Santa Cruz, Calif.), Jianting Cao (Mountain View, Calif.), John Colgrove (Los Altos, Calif.), Christopher Golden (Emerald Hills, Calif.), John Hayes (Mountain View, Calif.), Cary Sandvig (Isle La Motte, Vt.) and Grigori Inozemtsev (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method comprising: receiving a request to write data stored at a first range of a first volume to a second range of a second volume, where first metadata for the first range of the first volu...