ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,354, issued on July 8, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Refreshing multiple target copies created from a single source" was invented by Roopashree Shanmukham (Bangalore, India) and Shivasharan Dalasanur Narayana Gowda (Kolar, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes refreshing secondary or repurposed copies. A copy data management system issues a single request that allows multiple secondary copies to be refreshed using an API server. The server allows a storage controller to read data from a single source and then write the data read from the source to multiple targets simultaneously, the...