ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,726, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to EVERPURE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Disaster recovery using virtual storage systems" was invented by James Fisher (Golden, Colo.), Naveen Neelakantam (Mountain View, Calif.) and Yuval Frandzel (Foster City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Performing disaster recovery in a cloud-based storage system, including: creating, by a storage system a snapshot of a dataset; uploading, from the storage system to a cloud computing environment, the snapshot; storing, by the cloud computing environment, the snapshot; detecting, by the cloud computing environment, that the dataset is not available on ...