ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,592, issued on June 3, was assigned to Commvault Systems Inc. (Tinton Falls, N.J.).

"Data object store and server for a cloud storage environment" was invented by Anand Prahlad (Bangalore, India), Marcus Muller (Maynard, Mass.), Rajiv Kottomtharayil (Marlboro, N.J.), Srinivas Kavuri (San Jose, Calif.), Parag Gokhale (Marlboro, N.J.) and Manoj Kumar Vijayan (Marlboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data storage operations, including content-indexing, containerized deduplication, and policy-driven storage, are performed within a cloud environment. The systems support a variety of clients and cloud storage sites that may connect to ...