ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,547, issued on March 31, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Synchronizing configuration of partner objects across distributed storage systems using transformations" was invented by Anoop Chakkalakkal Vijayan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A configuration for a component of a primary node is synchronized with a configuration for a component of a partner node in a different cluster by replicating the primary node configuration with the partner node. A baseline configuration replication comprises a snapshot of a component configuration on the primary. The baseline configuration can be generated by traver...