ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,769, issued on March 18, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Disaster recovery pipeline for block storage and dependent applications" was invented by Kartik Saraswat (Uttar Pradesh, India), Param Mangal (Bengaluru, India), Sandeep Ashok Ghadage (Sangli, India), Shubham Singh (Uttar Pradesh, India) and Sudish Kumar Sah (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A recovery orchestration pipeline has stages configured to control efficient failover and recovery of applications in a multi-site disaster recovery (DR) environment. The applications run on user virtual machines (UVMs) at a primary site of the DR environme...