ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,591, issued on May 27, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Techniques for dynamic resource balancing with asynchronous replication" was invented by Mayank Ajmera (Cary, N.C.), Vamsi K. Vankamamidi (Hopkinton, Mass.) and Vikram A. Prabhakar (Apex, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques can include: configuring stretched volumes for asynchronous replication; specifying replication settings denoting selected replication service levels of asynchronous replication optimizations for the stretched volumes; performing asynchronous replication for the stretched volumes based on the replication settings; monitoring a ...