ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,432, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Leveraging file-system metadata for direct to cloud object storage optimization" was invented by Sunil Yadav (Bangalore, India) and Shelesh Chopra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for leveraging file-system metadata for direct to cloud object storage optimization. Under cloud object storage architecture, any unstructured data may be managed and stored in the cloud as objects. Objects thus provide an elastic, scalable format through which unstructured data may be maintained for a variety of purposes, including those directe...