ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,723, issued on May 20, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Maintaining data integrity for backed up files" was invented by Kaushik Gupta (Pune, India) and Shiv S. Kumar (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can determine that an integrity of a data backup is to undergo a validation process, wherein the data backup is located at a target location, and wherein the data backup comprises a backup of source data at a source location. The system can identify a subset of files of the source data to validate in the data backup, wherein the subset of files is determined prior to performing the determining tha...