ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,081, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LTD. (Kanagawa-Ken, Japan).

"Storage system for remote copy and path selection method for remote copy" was invented by Misato Yoshida (Tokyo) and Takahiro Yamamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object of the invention is to reduce a performance decrease in remote copy performed between a second storage system and a first storage system including a plurality of nodes. For each of a plurality of paths between the first and second storage systems, the path is a path that communicably connects any initiator port of the first storage system and any target port of the secon...