ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,177, issued on July 22, was assigned to Commvault Systems Inc. (Tinton Falls, N.J.).

"Migrating data between data storage systems integrated with application orchestrators" was invented by Srividhya Kavaipatti Anantharamakrishnan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Lasaro Camargos (Uberlandia, Brazil), Abhijith Shenoy (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Xiangyu Wang (Fremont, Calif.), Avinash Lakshman (Fremont, Calif.) and Srinivas Lakshman (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed data storage system comprises features for integration with application orchestrators such as Kubernetes, and includes a proprietary Container Storage Interface ...