ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,747, issued on June 17, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Orchestrating coordinated snapshots across distinct storage environments" was invented by Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.), Naveen Neelakantam (Mountain View, Calif.) and Taher Vohra (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for orchestrating coordinated snapshots across distinct storage environments are disclosed. The methods include steps for determining, for storage systems storing portions of a dataset, that a local checkpoint at a storage system of the storage systems meets dependency requirements for a coordinated checkp...