ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,678, issued on April 22, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Synchronous replication" was invented by Michael Robin Eisler (Colorado Springs, Colo.), Santosh Ananth Rao (Santa Clara, Calif.), Akhil Kaushik (San Jose, Calif.) and Yuedong Mu (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more techniques and/or computing devices are provided for synchronous replication. For example, synchronous replication relationships are established between a first storage object (e.g., a file, a logical unit number (LUN), a consistency group, etc.), hosted by a first storage controller, and a plurality of replication storage obj...