ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,714, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Resync transfer for recovering from storage site failure utilizing background pull operations" was invented by Rachita Kothiyal (San Jose, Calif.), Atul Ramesh Pandit (Los Gatos, Calif.), Abhishek Naidu (San Jose, Calif.), Anil Kumar Ponnapur (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Tijin George (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for performing a resync transfer to recover from a storage site failure. During normal operation of a first site hosting a first volume, data is replicated to a second volume hosted by a second site. If the first si...