US Patent Issued to Dell Products on April 29 for "System and method to create application copies for copy reuse utilizing the application backup data stored in secondary storage" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,966, issued on April 29, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method to create application copies for copy reuse utilizing the application backup data stored in secondary storage" was invented by Sunil Kumar (Bangalore, India) and Ravi Vijayakumar Chitloor (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes copying selected backup data from a secondary storage system to a provisioned primary storage volume, creating a snapshot of the primary storage volume, using the snapshot to create a thin clone volume, masking the thin clone volume, and mounting the thin clone volume, and recov...