ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,022, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method and system for generating incremental approximation backups of limited access cloud data" was invented by Sunil Yadav (Bangalore, India), Amarendra Behera (Bangalore, India), Tushar Dethe (Bangalore, India) and Shelesh Chopra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein relate to a method for performing data protection services for limited access cloud data. The method includes identifying, by a cloud service provider (CSP) proxy, a protection policy event associated with an incremental approximation backup of an obje...