ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,606, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Data migration using a consistency group" was invented by Murali Vaddagiri (Austin, Texas), Krishna Karoor Kumar (San Jose, Calif.) and Joseph Raymond Loos (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations relate to computer data storage. In some examples, a controller establishes a migration link between a first storage device and a second storage device, and create a consistency group including replicating volumes and a control volume stored on the first storage device. The controller initiates, based on the co...