US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Aug. 26 for "Detecting the most recent state of an active directory object and recovering using backups or production tombstones" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,787, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Detecting the most recent state of an active directory object and recovering using backups or production tombstones" was invented by Sunil Yadav (Bengaluru, India), Amarendra Behera (Bengaluru, India) and Shelesh Chopra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing data protection includes initiating, by a backup server, identifying an active directory (AD) application on the VM, wherein the AD application comprises a set of AD objects and a directory service for managing the set of AD objects, in response to identifying the AD app...