ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,850, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Data consistent freeze of peer-to-peer remote copy in a multiple computing cluster environment" was invented by William C. Shepard (Hyde Park, N.Y.), Tabor R. Powelson (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), Tri M. Hoang (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Dale F Riedy (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data consistent freeze of peer-to-peer remote copy in a multiple computing cluster environment includes freezing, by each of a first computing cluster and a second computing cluster, non-shared logical volumes of the first computing cluster and the second ...