ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,525, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Recovery of data associated with a locked snapshot via volume cloning functionality" was invented by Vijay Srinath (Karnataka, India), V Ramakrishna Rao Yadala (Karnataka, India), Mohit Devarakonda (Hyderabad, India) and Shilpa Kumar (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are described for performing an instant recovery of data associated with a locked snapshot. In various examples, a recovery of data associated with a locked snapshot is performed by making use of volume cloning functionality instead of making an actual copy of the da...