US Patent Issued to Dell Products on April 22 for "Data storage object cloning in a multi-appliance federation" (Massachusetts, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,493, issued on April 22, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Data storage object cloning in a multi-appliance federation" was invented by Dmitry Nikolayevich Tylik (Westborough, Mass.) and Nagasimha Haravu (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of creating a clone, on a second data storage appliance of a federation, of a source storage object stored on a first data storage appliance of the federation, includes creating a snapshot (point-in-time copy) of the source storage object at the first appliance, and then performing a full copy of the snapshot from the first appliance to the second applianc...