ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,263, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Cloud capacity scaling in metadata space constrained deduplication systems" was invented by Shashank Prakash Khobragade (Nagpur, India), Santi Gopal Mondal (Bangalore, India), Arun Vishnu Pk (Bangalore, India) and Kalyan Gunda (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data migrated from a deduplicated storage appliance are stored as cloud units at cloud storage. Each cloud unit includes containers including data containers storing segments of files, segment tree containers storing upper-level segments of segment trees representing the files, and clo...