ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,751, issued on June 24, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Storage system and management method" was invented by Akira Deguchi (Tokyo), Masahiro Arai (Tokyo) and Hideyuki Koseki (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A management server stops a sub-server in advance and prepares a sub-storage that operates in response to a request from the sub-server at the time of transition at which a business process of using data stored in a regular storage is performed in the sub-server. The management server recovers data using recovery data stored in an object storage and stores the data in the sub-storage and starts the s...