ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,526, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Incremental backup to object store" was invented by Ling Zheng (Saratoga, Calif.), Atul Ramesh Pandit (Los Gatos, Calif.), Tijin George (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ravindra Ramachandraiah Kuramkote (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for incremental backup to an object store. A request may be received from an application to perform a backup from a volume hosted by a node to a backup target within the object store. A set of changed files within the volume since a prior backup of the volume was performed to the backup target is ident...