ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,041, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Performance-based migration for a volume group" was invented by Umesh Deshpande (San Jose, Calif.), Binayak Dutta (Pune, India), Thanh T. Pham (San Jose, Calif.), Sangeetha Seshadri (Plano, Calif.) and Sandeep Ramesh Patil (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method (CIM), according to one embodiment, includes simulating placement of a volume group on a first potential target storage system, and determining a first performance limit for the first potential target storage system based on the simulating. The me...