US Patent Issued to Dropbox on Jan. 20 for "Resume backup of external storage device using multi-root system" (California, New York, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,369, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Dropbox Inc. (San Francisco).

"Resume backup of external storage device using multi-root system" was invented by Sourabh Yerfule (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Jordi Paris Ferrer (San Francisco), Kelson Reiss (San Francisco), Parker Timmerman (New York) and Sabrina Weschler (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology is directed to providing a multi-root architecture for managing devices associated with their own root namespaces. The system can include backing up multiple computing devices to a single user account such that the content items from each computing device are stored in the...