US Patent Issued to HITACHI VANTARA on April 21 for "Storage system and path management method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,285, issued on April 21, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LTD. (Kanagawa-Ken, Japan).

"Storage system and path management method" was invented by Hiroto Ebara (Tokyo), Takahiro Yamamoto (Tokyo), Misato Yoshida (Tokyo) and Yoshinori Ohira (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first management device is provided that sets, when a second storage node is increased/decreased at a secondary site, a new remote copy path between a first storage node provided with a primary volume associated with a secondary volume moved in accordance with the increase/decrease, and deletes an original remote copy path set between the second storage that is...