ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,272, issued on April 8, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Orchestrating per-slice per-container backup sessions for efficient resource usage" was invented by Upanshu Singhal (Bangalore, India), Shelesh Chopra (Bangalore, India) and Ashish Kumar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing a backup operation, the method comprising receiving a backup operation request for an asset, identifying a queue comprising the plurality of slices, wherein each slice references a separate portion of the asset, sending a first backup request to a proxy manager to instantiate a container for each of a...