US Patent Issued to Acronis International on March 24 for "Systems and methods for sequence-based data chunking for deduplication" (Canadian, Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,618, issued on March 24, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for sequence-based data chunking for deduplication" was invented by Sreeharsha Udayashankar (Waterloo, Canada), Abdelrahman Ba'ba' (Waterloo, Canada), Samer Al-Kiswany (Waterloo, Canada), Serg Bell (Costa del Sol, Singapore) and Stanislav Protasov (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and method for data chunking. In one aspect, a method includes consecutively scanning each respective byte in a byte stream of data. The method includes in response to detecting a first amount of adjacen...