ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,436, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Nvidia Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Storage system with cloud assisted recovery" was invented by Siamak Nazari (Mountain View, Calif.), David Dejong (Fremont, Calif.), Srinivasa Murthy (Cupertino, Calif.), Shayan Askarian Namaghi (San Jose, Calif.) and Roopesh Tamma (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cluster storage system including servers containing storage processing units (SPUs) can create synchronized snapshot sets for the volumes that the SPUs maintain and can report the snapshot sets to a cloud-based service. Each snapshot in a set reflects the state a corresponding vol...