Xiotech (X-IO Technologies) Assigned Patent

Xiotech Corporation, Colorado Springs, CO, has been assigned a patent (9,021,223) developed by Elkington, Susan, and Walker, Michael, Colorado Springs, CO, for a “resilient mirroring.”

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”An apparatus and associated method including a first storage device and a second storage device, each coupled to a remote server independently of the other via a network. Resilient mirroring logic is stored in each of the storage devices that establishes a peer-to-peer communication connection with the other storage device in response to receiving a data access command from the remote server.“

The patent application was filed on January 20, 2014 (14/159,293).