ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,867, issued on May 13, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Granular cloud restore with multi storage class support" was invented by Sanhita Praveen Dhavale (San Jose, Calif.), Tijin George (San Jose, Calif.), Avanthi Rajan (Fremont, Calif.), Harsha Vardhan Reddy Perannagari (San Jose, Calif.) and Sumedh Guha (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for performing a storage operation targeting objects stored across multiple storage tiers of a cloud storage environment. A volume may be backed up as objects stored across the multiple storage tiers of the cloud storage environment, such as a s...