ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,707, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for managing storage space in a data management system" was invented by Prem Pradeep Motgi (Austin, Texas), Dharmesh M. Patel (Round Rock, Texas) and Manpreet Singh Sokhi (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing storage space in a data management system are disclosed. To manage storage space, data management system may limit the types and quantity of data stored within the data management system. Data management system may prioritize deletion of data based on relevancy of the data for one or more ...