NexGen Storage/Pivot3 Assigned Patent

NexGen Storage, Inc., Louisville, CO , (acquired by Pivot3) has been assigned a patent (10,866,742) developed by Patterson, John A., Niwot, CO, and Sobolewski, Sebastian P., Broomfield, CO, for “archiving storage volume snapshots.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for archiving storage volume snapshots. An archive module determines at least one snapshot or point in time copy of data. A metadata module determines metadata for restoring a snapshot or point in time copy. A storage module replicates a snapshot or point in time copy and stores the replicated snapshot or point in time copy and metadata to a target storage location, such as one or more data files in a file system of one or more storage devices from a different vendor than a storage device from which the data was copied. In another embodiment, both the ability to archive a storage volume snapshot and restore a previously archived storage volume snapshot is provided.”

The patent application was filed on August 4, 2015 (14/818,298).