US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 1 for "Systems and method for leveraging backup metadata to provide granular options for data protection" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,211, issued on July 1, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Systems and method for leveraging backup metadata to provide granular options for data protection" was invented by Sunil Yadav (Bangalore, India), Manish Sharma (Bangalore, India), Aaditya Bansal (Bangalore, India) and Shelesh Chopra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing a backup includes: obtaining a file system backup metadata associated with a target file system of a target production host; processing the file system backup metadata to determine protected data and unprotected data in the target file system; after process...