ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,791, issued on March 25, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Object store data management container with integrated snapshot difference interface for compliance scans" was invented by Tijin George (San Jose, Calif.) and Sharankumar Yelheri (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for a snapshot difference interface integrated into an object store data management container. The snapshot difference interface is capable of interpreting an object format and snapshot file system format of snapshots backed up to an object store within objects formatted according to the object format. The sna...