ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,069, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Method to efficiently transfer support and system logs from air-gapped vault systems to replication data sources by re-utilizing the existing replication streams" was invented by Kalyan C. Gunda (Bangalore, India) and Jagannathdas Rath (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes, at a replication data source, initiating a replication process that includes transmitting a replication stream to a replication destination vault, and data in the replication stream is transmitted by way of a closed airgap between the replicat...