ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,974, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Low overhead resynchronization snapshot creation and utilization" was invented by Akhil Kaushik (San Jose, Calif.), Ripulkumar Hemantbhai Patel (Fremont, Calif.), Vrishali Dattatray Hajare (Milpitas, Calif.), Andrew Eric Dunn (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Rithin Kumar Shetty (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for resynchronization. For example, a request may be received to create pseudo snapshots of a first consistency group, hosted by a first storage controller, and a second consistency group...