US Patent Issued to NetApp on Aug. 26 for "Methods and systems to reduce latency of input/output (I/O) operations based on file system optimizations during creation of common snapshots for synchronous replicated datasets of a primary copy of data at a primary storage system to a mirror copy of the data at a cross-site secondary storage system" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,788, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems to reduce latency of input/output (I/O) operations based on file system optimizations during creation of common snapshots for synchronous replicated datasets of a primary copy of data at a primary storage system to a mirror copy of the data at a cross-site secondary storage system" was invented by Akhil Kaushik (San Jose, Calif.), Krishna Murthy Chandraiah Setty Narasingarayanapeta (Bangalore, India), Dhruvil Shah (Bangalore, India) and Omprakash Khandelwal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multi-site distributed storage system...