ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,545, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Detection and recovery of platform specific replication failures in SDNAS solution on a storage system" was invented by Rashmi Shashidhar (Bangalore, India), Kumaravel Palanisamy (Bangalore, India) and Likith Prasanna P (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example methodology includes monitoring a replication workflow execution on a storage system and, responsive to a detection of a failure of the replication workflow, determining whether the failure is in a Software Defined Network Attached Storage (SDNAS) or in an underlying storage array ...