ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,511,265, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Sandisk Technologies Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Deduplication for data transfers to portable storage devices" was invented by Ankit Rajani (Raipur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage device for performing a deduplication process includes a data interface, a data buffer, a hash buffer, non-volatile storage media, and control circuitry. The control circuitry is configured to receive a plurality of data files from the host device, generate a first hash set for a first file, store the first hash set in the hash buffer, store the first file in the non-volatile storage media, and gene...