ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,312, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Mapping storage objects to storage tiers using digital twins" was invented by Ophir Buchman (Raanana, Israel), Tomer Shachar (Beer-Sheva, Israel) and Yevgeni Gehtman (Modi'in, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for mapping storage objects to storage tiers using digital twins. One method comprises initializing at least one virtual representation for multiple storage tiers of a storage system using storage metrics of the respective storage tier, wherein the storage system comprises storage objects, and wherein a storage object is m...