US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Oct. 21 for "Creator-protected copies in storage systems" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,378, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Creator-protected copies in storage systems" was invented by Shivasharan Narayana Gowda (Kolar, India) and Balasundaram Govindan (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Creator-protected copies in storage systems are described. After receiving a command, from a user who is a creator of a copy of an object, to store the copy of the object and a corresponding keyword, the system stores the copy of the object and the corresponding keyword to a storage system. Following receipt of a command from a system user to perform an operation on the copy of the...