ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,210, issued on July 1, was assigned to EMC IP HOLDING COMPANY LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Method and system for idempotent synthetic full backups in storage devices" was invented by Deepthi Urs (Bangalore, India), Shraddha Chunekar (Indore, India), Adrian Dobrean (Oakville, Canada), Navneet Upadhyay (Greater Noida, India), Sunder Ramesh Andra (Bangalore, India) and Amith Ramachandran (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, embodiments relate to a method for generating synthetic full backups, the method comprising: performing a verification that a previous backup of source data stored in a data domain is a failed synt...