ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,857, issued on May 13, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Generic "differential discovery service" for use in any storage array to provide differential discovery of the infrastructure assets to any client" was invented by Jayashree Radha (Bangalore, India) and Astha Arora (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes receiving a first message specifying that one or more changes have been made to infrastructure assets of a storage array. In response to receiving the first message, a change table stored in a database is updated to specify the one or more changes made to the infrastruct...