US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Sept. 30 for "Sub-track granularity for preserving point-in-time data" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,358, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Sub-track granularity for preserving point-in-time data" was invented by Sandeep Chandrashekhara (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Michael Ferrari (Douglas, Mass.) and Deepak Vokaliga (Hopkinton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for reconstituting a data storage unit of a volume, the method comprising: initializing a reconstituted data storage unit that includes a plurality of portions; identifying a first type-1 data structure that corresponds to the data storage unit and a first snapshot of the volume, the first snapshot being created at a first point-...