ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,769, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Acceleration secondary use of data" was invented by Takanobu Suzuki (San Jose, Calif.), Tomohiro Kawaguchi (Santa Clara, Canada) and Akiyoshi Tsuchiya (San Jose, Canada).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein can involve, for receipt of a write request from a server to a first storage system associated with a mounted volume having an attribute of read only or read/write, the write request processed by a second storage system, the second storage system setting the write destination of write data associated with the write request ...