ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,889, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Non-disruptive storage expansion of a paired set of consistency groups (CG) within a cross-site storage system" was invented by V Ramakrishna Rao Yadala (Bangalore, India), Anoop Vijayan (Bangalore, India), Sohan Shetty (Bangalore, India), Murali Subramanian (Bangalore, India), Arun Kumar Selvam (Tamilnadu, India) and Akhil Kaushik (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method includes maintaining information indicative of whether a data replication relationship between a dataset associated with the local CG and a mirror copy of ...