ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,882, issued on March 17, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LTD. (Kanagawa-Ken, Japan).

"System, method, and program for data transfer process" was invented by Masahiro Arai (Tokyo), Akira Deguchi (Tokyo) and Kazuei Hironaka (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When executing a data transfer process between one volume and a second storage unit, a computer resource activation unit activates one or more computer resources that executes the data transfer process, and mounts one common volume as a transfer source or a transfer destination in the data transfer process on any of the activated computer resources. A region allocation unit all...