ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,603, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LTD. (Kanagawa-ken, Japan).

"Computer system and operation management method for disaster-recovery while preserving write-order consistency" was invented by Hiroto Ebara (Tokyo), Yoshinori Ohira (Tokyo), Takahiro Yamamoto (Tokyo), Shintaro Ito (Tokyo) and Sachie Tajima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer system includes a primary site having a primary volume, and having an instance that performs data processing related to input/output data, and a secondary site having a secondary volume, and having an instance. Remote copy is set up between the primary and secondary...