ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,970, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Cohesity Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).
"Container-based erasure coding" was invented by Apurv Gupta (Bengaluru, India), Akshat Agarwal (Delhi, India), Manvendra Singh Tomar (Bengaluru, India), Donthula Akshith Reddy (Bheemaram, India), Kushal Singh (Bengaluru, India), Tarun Kumar Yadav (Rajasthan, India) and Mandar Suresh Naik (Pune, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A repository of replicated chunk files is analyzed to identify chunk files that meet at least a portion of combination criteria. Selected chunk files are associated together under a data protection grouping container. Erasure coding...