ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,075, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Recovery aware data migration in distributed systems" was invented by Ashutosh Bahadure (Apex, N.C.) and Srisailendra Yallapragada (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data protection aware data migration in distributed systems is disclosed. While actively migrating data from a source to a target, the process of protecting the data is performed with respect to a recovery system. Thus, data is replicated to both the target and the recovery system. During a final phase, synchronization data is sent to both the target and the recovery system. Aft...