ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,196, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Event based retention of read only files" was invented by Akshatha Gangadharaiah (Bangalore, India), Balamurugan Ramajeyam (Chennai, India), Raman Madaan (Uttar Pradesh Pin, India), Subhash A Sankuratripati (Playa Vista, Calif.), Aftab Ahmad Ansari (Bangalore, India) and Vaiapuri Ramasubramaniam (Karnataka, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for implementing an event based retention schedule for a read only file. When a regular file is to be converted to an event based retention read only file, an "event-retain" property may b...