ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,058, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Data copying using a source group and a target group of data storage systems" was invented by Zhe Yang (Chengdu, China), Rui Chen (Chengdu, China), Hua Wang (Chengdu, China) and Xingguo Zhang (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for data processing involve creating a source group including a first storage system and a target group including a plurality of storage systems. Such techniques further involve selecting a second storage system from the plurality of storage systems in the target group based on the performance of the pluralit...