US Patent Issued to NetApp on Sept. 15 for "Volume group restore from remote object store" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,260, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Volume group restore from remote object store" was invented by Rakesh Bhargava M.R. (Bengaluru, India), Murali Subramanian (Bangalore, India), Tijin George (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ching-Yuk Paul Ngan (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for volume group backup, volume group restore, and volume group garbage collection for volume groups backed up to an object store. A volume group workflow is implemented to orchestrate individual consistent volume workflows that are separately and individually implemented by nodes hosting...