ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,265,453, issued on April 1, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Snapshot creation with synchronous replication" was invented by Vrishali Dattatray Hajare (Milpitas, Calif.), Ripulkumar Hemantbhai Patel (Fremont, Calif.), Ching-Yuk Paul Ngan (Redwood City, Calif.) and Rithin Kumar Shetty (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for snapshot creation. For example, a request may be received to create a snapshot of a first storage object, hosted by a first storage controller, having a synchronous replication relationship with a second storage object hosted by ...