ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,326, issued on May 27, was assigned to Cohesity Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Unified metadata search" was invented by Anubhav Gupta (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Subramanian Sethumadhavan (San Jose, Calif.), Naga Venkata Sai Indubhaskar Jupudi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jeffrey Howard (Wichita, Kan.), Manvendra Tomar Singh (Madhya Pradesh, India) and Yu-Shen Ng (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Metadata associated with content stored in a corresponding primary storage system is received receiving from each secondary storage cluster of a plurality of different secondary storage clusters included in different storage domains. The ...