US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 23 for "Tape device to replicate data to a plurality of remote storage devices" (American, Mexican Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,934, issued on June 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Tape device to replicate data to a plurality of remote storage devices" was invented by Shawn Owen Brume (North Pole, Alaska), Carlos Sandoval Castro (Jalisco, Mexico), Ricardo Clemente Betancourt (Nayarit, Mexico), Parker Thomas Wall (Raleigh, N.C.) and Jean Pierre Lavigne (Durham, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for a tape device to replicate data to a plurality of remote storage devices. A replication request is received from the computing device to replicate data to a repli...