ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,313, issued on June 3, was assigned to Commvault Systems Inc. (Tinton Falls, N.J.).

"Optimized restoration of deduplicated data stored in cloud-based storage resources" was invented by Saurabh Agrawal (Ocean, N.J.) and Manoj Kumar Vijayan (Marlboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques disclosed herein are well suited to restoring deduplicated backup data from cloud-based storage and from multi-node replicated files systems, and they also improve performance in more traditional data storage technologies. Pre-restore steps include analysis of deduplication indexes to identify data segments that are stored consecutively on sto...