US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 7 for "Techniques for adding and removing storage objects from groups" (Massachusetts, North Carolina Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,972, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Techniques for adding and removing storage objects from groups" was invented by Dmitry Nikolayevich Tylik (Westborough, Mass.), Vasudevan Subramanian (Chapel Hill, N.C.) and Girish Sheelvant (Hopkinton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques can include: establishing synchronous replication configurations between first and second sites for a group of stretched resources and a stretched resource; and performing processing that adds the stretched resource to the group. While both the group and stretched resource are in an active-active state and replic...