ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,334, issued on July 29, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Enhancing array prefetch for sequential IOs in active-active remote replication" was invented by Arieh Don (Newton, Mass.), G Vinay Rao (Bangalore, India), Sanjib Mallick (Krisnarajapuram, India) and Ramesh Doddaiah (Westborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In an active-active replication environment in which sequential read IOs are distributed across storage array ports and replicas, a first read data size controls selection of a different path to a currently targeted replica to distribute sequential reads across storage system ports and a second ...