ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,980, issued on April 29, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Fast resynchronization of a mirrored aggregate using disk-level cloning" was invented by Sangramsinh Pandurang Pawar (Bedford, Mass.), Bhoovaraghan Subramanian (Cary, N.C.), William Derby Dallas (Merrimack, N.H.), Sowkoor Sunad Bhandary (Morrisville, N.C.), Rajesh Rajarman (Action, Mass.) and FNU Sahasranshu (Cary, N.C.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for performing a fast resynchronization of a mirrored aggregate of a distributed storage system using disk-level cloning are provided. According to one embodiment, responsive to a failure of a di...