US Patent Issued to Hitachi Vantara on Feb. 18 for "Storage system and method of restoring storage system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,020, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Hitachi Vantara Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Storage system and method of restoring storage system" was invented by Hiroki Fujii (Tokyo), Masahiro Arai (Tokyo) and Akira Deguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Acquiring a snapshot of a logical volume involves generating snapshot-related catalog information including at least a location for storing actual data in the snapshot and a reference destination for identifying another snapshot in parent-child relation to the snapshot, and storing the actual data in the snapshot to the physical storage device and/or to the cloud service. In a case wher...