ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,282, issued on April 21.

"Backup and restore of resources located within a remote object store" was invented by John Ethan DeGraaf (Cranberry Township, Pa.), Sangramsinh Pandurang Pawar (Bedford, Mass.) and Rajesh Rajaraman (Acton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for backing up and restoring a file system or storage virtual machine located within a remote object store. A specification is parsed to identify resources associated with and including a primary resource hosted within a remote object store and to identify REST API endpoints of the resources. GET operations targeting the REST API endpoints of th...