ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,731, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Accelerated replication on recovery site in hybrid cloud environment" was invented by Vamshikrishna Thatikonda (Hyderabad, India), Venkata Naga Seshaiah Anumula (Hyderabad, India), Savitri Hunasheekatti (Bangalore, India) and Sanket Rathi (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method may include receiving an alert indicating a need for accelerated I/O group mirroring; creating a shadow physical volume of an emulated physical volume present on an RPV server; communicating a capability of the RPV server to mir...