ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,752, issued on June 24, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Techniques for LIF placement in san storage cluster synchronous disaster recovery" was invented by Raj Lalsangi (Cary, N.C.), Pramod John Mathew (Bangalore, India), Subramanian Natarajan (Bangalore, India) and Santosh Rao (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Improved techniques for disaster recover within storage area networks are disclosed. Embodiments include replicating a LIF of a primary cluster on a secondary cluster. LIF configuration information is extracted from the primary cluster. A peer node from a secondary cluster is located. One or mor...