ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,939, issued on July 28, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for cloning as SQL server AG databases in a hyperconverged system" was invented by Tarun Mehta (Bangalore, India) and Rohan Mohan Rayaraddi (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method include creating, by an Availability Group ("AG") controller in a virtual computing system, a first AG clone from a source database. The source database is stored on a primary replica node of an AG of the virtual computing system. The system and method also include creating, by the Controller, a second AG clone from the first AG clone and...