ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,762, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Transitioning between source data repositories for a dataset" was invented by David Grunwald (San Francisco), Thomas Gill (Bury St Edmunds, Great Britain), Connor Brooks (Mountain View, Calif.), Larry Touchette (Cupertino, Calif.) and Saurabh Shukla (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Transitioning between replication sources for data replication operations, including: delaying a transition from using a first data repository as a source for data replication to using a second data repository as the source for data replication after detect...