US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 8 for "Splitting image backups into sub-images" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,301, issued on July 8, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Splitting image backups into sub-images" was invented by Sunil Yadav (Bengaluru, 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 enhancing backup and recovery of a VM, including receiving, in connection with a backup operation, a backup-ready metadata database and a backup image of the VM at a backup storage. The method also includes logically splitting, using the backup-ready metadata database, the backup image into multiple logical portions. The method further includes performing...