ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,350, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Storage system with negotiated replication optimization" was invented by Sanjib Mallick (Bangalore, India) and Vinay G. Rao (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus includes at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The processing device is configured to send at least one command to a target storage system, to receive, in response to the at least one command, information characterizing one or more replication parameters supported by the target storage system, and to configure a replication process to re...