US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Aug. 26 for "Retention lock leveraging in a backup computing system" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,790, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Retention lock leveraging in a backup computing system" was invented by Salil Dangi (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Amol Powar (Burlington, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes generating, by a data backup server agent that is hosted by a backup client computing system, backup data files from data stored at the backup client computing system. The backup data files are written to a temporary folder in a staging location of a backup storage server. A determination is made of if an attempt to move the temporary folder has failed. A fa...