ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,147, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for configuration independent unplanned failover within a cross-site storage system having bidirectional synchronous replication" was invented by V Ramakrishna Rao Yadala (Bangalore, India) and Rohit Chaudhary (Uttar Pradesh, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a computer-implemented method includes establishing bi-directional synchronous replication between one or more members of a first consistency group (CG1) of a primary storage site and one or more members of a second consistency group (CG2) of a secondary storage site w...