ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,240, issued on June 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Data catalog for dataset lifecycle management system for content-based data protection" was invented by Adam Brenner (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Jehuda Shemer (Kfar Saba, Israel), Steven Sadhwani (Round Rock, Texas) and Chris E. Rowen (Bedford, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Providing content based data protection for data stored in a large-scale data storage system by scanning data stored in one or more databases for discovery of metadata, and extracting the discovered metadata, for storage in a data catalog, the data catalog having a scanning function pe...