ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,227, issued on July 1, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Cross-platform replication" was invented by Atul Ramesh Pandit (Los Gatos, Calif.), Vijay M. Deshmukh (Fremont, Calif.), Michael Lee Federwisch (San Jose, Calif.), Ling Zheng (Saratoga, Calif.), Kiyoshi James Komatsu (San Mateo, Calif.) and Rachita Kothiyal (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 cross-platform replication. For example, a replication relationship may be established between a first storage endpoint and a second storage endpoint, where at least one of the storage endpoints, su...