ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,464,043, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to PURE STORAGE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Switching between network layers for replication" was invented by Logan Jennings (Menlo Park, Calif.), Aaron Dailey (San Jose, Calif.), Roland Dreier (Mountain View, Calif.), Ganga Kondapalli (San Jose, Calif.), Nicole Tselentis (Los Altos, Calif.), Stephen Whitney (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Daquan Zuo (Mountain View, Calif.), Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.) and John Colgrove (Los Altos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Supporting multiple replication schemes across distinct network layers, including: replicating, over a first type of network messaging lay...