US Patent Issued to DELL PRODUCTS on July 1 for "Generating data block mapping in incremental image backups for post processing" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,214, issued on July 1, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Generating data block mapping in incremental image backups for post processing" was invented by Sunil Yadav (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 backups of virtual machines on a host. The method includes obtaining an incremental image backup generation request associated with a virtual machine (VM) of the host; writing changed data blocks included in a storage volume associated with the VM to a backup storage; initiating the generation of a virtual...