ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,789, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Facilitating analytics involving cold data tiered to an object store by an on-premises storage solution by creating a virtual storage appliance on the object store" was invented by Mrinal K. Bhattacharjee (Bangalore, India), Arindam Banerjee (Pleasanton, Calif.), Arjun Singh Kharai (Uttarakhand, India) and Dnyaneshwar Pawar (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for creating a virtual storage appliance on an object store to which an on-premises storage solution has tiered cold data are provided. According to one embodiment, a physic...