ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,677, issued on April 22, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Object store mirroring based on checkpoint" was invented by Anil Paul Thoppil (Pleasanton, Calif.), Cheryl Marie Thompson (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Qinghua Zheng (San Jose, Calif.), Jeevan Hunsur Eswara (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nicholas Gerald Zehender (Santa Clara, Calif.), Ronak Girishbhai Ghadiya (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Sridevi Jantli (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for object store mirroring. Data within a storage tier of a node may be determined as being data to tier out to a primary object store based upon a property of the...