ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,040, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method, electronic device, and computer program product for data replication" was invented by Helen Dong (Chengdu, China), Xuhui Yang (Chengdu, China) and Renyuan Tong (Chengdu, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data replication is described. An example method includes determining an aging degree of a first-type storage disk in a source storage device and determining a transmission time length for replicating target data from a second-type storage disk in the source storage device to a destination storage device, wherein the target data is stored in t...