ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,138, issued on May 27, was assigned to Cohesity Inc. (San Clara, Calif.).

"Performing a backup of an object based on an identifier associated with the object" was invented by Debasish Garai (Santa Clara, Calif.), Amandeep Gautam (San Jose, Calif.), Apurv Gupta (Bengaluru, India), Jagavar Nehra (Bengaluru, India) and Emalayan Vairavanathan (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data associated with an object to be stored is received from a source system for a destination logical storage container selected among a plurality of destination logical storage containers. A total number of the destination logical storage container...