US Patent Issued to Dell Products on May 20 for "Techniques for avoiding and reducing data unavailability" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,718, issued on May 20, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Techniques for avoiding and reducing data unavailability" was invented by David Meiri (Somerville, Mass.) and Dmitry Tylik (Westborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A clustered pair of storage systems configured for active-active bidirectional synchronous replication expose a stretched volume over paths to both storage systems. Writes to the stretched volume received at each system are replicated to the peer system. The cluster can use a time-to-live (TTL) mechanism by which a non-preferred system continuously requests a TTL grant from the preferred...