ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,319, issued on June 3, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Object lock across versioning modes in object storage" was invented by Brandon Tarquinio (Seattle), Matthew Troutman (Cypress, Texas) and Yuxi Cui (Kenmore, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can store data in an object storage system as respective objects within respective buckets, wherein a default behavior associated with enabling object lock on a bucket of the buckets comprises enabling versioning on the bucket. The system can store an object of the objects in a first bucket of the buckets, wherein a version of the object is a null version. Th...