US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on June 3 for "File-level snapshot access service" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,314, issued on June 3, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"File-level snapshot access service" was invented by Anil Gathala (San Jose, Calif.), Sandeep Kumar (Sammamish, Wash.), Kiran Shantaram Dalvi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Chakravarthi Kalyana Valicherla (Redmond, Wash.), Shailendra Verma (Bellevue, Wash.) and Adonijah Park (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A file-level snapshot access service provides direct access to individual files included in a snapshot for virtual volume of a block-storage service without requiring a volume to be re-created from the snapshot, attached to a computing device, or mounted in a f...