ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,790, issued on March 25, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"High frequency snapshot technique for improving data replication in disaster recovery environment" was invented by Angshuman Bezbaruah (Redmond, Wash.), Kiran Tatiparthi (Dublin, Calif.), Mahesh Venkataramaiah (San Jose, Calif.), Pranay Kumar Ega (Gilroy, Calif.), Praveen Kumar Padia (Fremont, Calif.), Ramya Bolla (San Jose, Calif.) and Sudhir Ravi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high frequency snapshot technique improves data replication in a disaster recovery (DR) environment. A base snapshot is generated from failover data at a primary s...