ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,438, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).
"Reference-based backup" was invented by Padmagandha Panigrahy (San Diego).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a computer system includes one or more processors and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing programming for execution by the one or more processors. The programming includes instructions to receive a request to create a second air-gapped backup corresponding to a second transient backup. The second transient backup is subsequent to a first transient backup corresponding to a first air-gapped backup....