ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,104, issued on June 24, was assigned to Expedia Inc. (Seattle).
"Universal storage handler" was invented by Sumit Sharma (Delhi, India) and Ankur Kumar Singh (Gurgaon, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure enable a storage manager to provide access to storage systems of varying types, such as database storage systems or indexed data storage systems, to a data source and allow for use of reserved storage capacity of the storage systems. The storage manager may provide access to storage systems under the control of different cloud storage providers. The storage manager may provide for temporary data sto...