US Patent Issued to DELL PRODUCTS on Feb. 3 for "Volume replacement using cloud volume snapshots" (Illinois, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,434, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Volume replacement using cloud volume snapshots" was invented by Steven Soumpholphakdy (Chicago) and Daniel Ryan (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method facilitating volume replacement using cloud volume snapshots includes halting, by a system including at least one processor, input/output (I/O) activity to a first volume of a cloud computing system in response to the first volume being determined to be unreachable; obtaining, by the system, a snapshot of the first volume in response to the halting; and creating, by the system, a second volume, ...