ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,675, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Comparison of a fingerprint generated for a realigned data page that begins at a non-zero value portion to a plurality of fingerprints of a deduplication storage system" was invented by Christopher Robert Sutton (Boise, Idaho) and Susan Agten (Boise, Idaho).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations relate to deduplication operations in a storage system. An example implementation includes receiving a data page to be stored in a persistent storage of a deduplication storage system, and, in response to a determination that the d...