ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,980, issued on July 22, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).
"Handling configuration drift in backup storage systems" was invented by Jayanth K. Perneti (Bangalore, India), Vinay Sawal (Fremont, Calif.) and Amitha Shetty (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments for handling configuration drift in a data storage system having a plurality of storage nodes. A configuration drift manager system defines a golden configuration dataset for the data storage system, obtains a current configuration dataset of each storage node of the plurality of storage nodes, each of the golden and configuration data...