ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,317, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Replication controller in a storage environment" was invented by Thomas L. Watson (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Replication techniques in storage environments are disclosed. For example, a method includes provisioning, via a replication controller in a storage environment, one or more volumes that are synchronously replicated across at least two storage arrays. The provisioning is configured to maintain access to the one or more volumes by an application program executing on a host device in response to one of the at least two storage arr...