US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 15 for "Object storage deduplication" (American, Brazilian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,967, issued on July 15, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Object storage deduplication" was invented by Hubertus Franke (Cortlandt Manor, N.Y.), Marcio Augusto De Lima E Silva (Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil), Tobin Feldman-Fitzthum (New York) and Krishna Thangaraj (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Storing compressed data objects by decompressing a first data object, identifying, differences between the first and second data objects, creating a new version of the second data object according to the differences, the first data object, and a reference object, and storing the first data objec...