ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,593, issued on March 11, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Taking snapshots with integrity of secure workspaces having distributed cache" was invented by Gokul Thiruchengode Vajravel (Bangalore, India), Vivekanandh Narayanasamy Rajagopalan (Bangalore, India) and Srinivasa Ragavan Rajagopalan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Snapshots with integrity can be taken of secure workspaces having distributed cache. When a snapshot of a secure workspace is to be taken, a host agent executing external to the secure workspace can instruct a workspace agent running inside the secure workspace to lock a files...