ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,449, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Cohesity Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Efficient backup after a restore operation" was invented by Shreshtha Mundra (San Jose, Calif.), Anand Arun (San Jose, Calif.), Shubham Parashram Sawant (Pune, India) and Yinzen Hwang (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A request to restore a specific backup instance is received. In response to the received request to restore the specific backup instance, a new reference backup instance based on the specific backup instance stored at the storage controlled by the backup system is created at a storage controlled by a backup system. Data associated...