ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,376, issued on July 8, was assigned to Commvault Systems Inc. (Tinton Falls, N.J.).
"Optimizing retention timeframes of deduplicated copies at storage platforms that are write-once read-many (WORM) enabled" was invented by Prasad Nara (Manalapan, N.J.), Abhishek Narulkar (Pune, India), Hetal Kapadia (Marlboro, N.J.) and Satya Narayan Mohanty (Masjid Banda, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage management system is enhanced to accommodate, and moreover to optimize, the storing and retention of deduplicated secondary copies at write-once read-many (WORM) enabled storage platforms. Enhancements include without limitation: u...