ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,279, issued on April 21, was assigned to Cohesity Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Utilizing fixed-sized and variable-length data chunks to perform source side deduplication" was invented by Apurv Gupta (Bengaluru, India), Mandar Suresh Naik (Pune, India), Zhihuan Qiu (San Jose, Calif.), Gurunarayanan Nagasubramanian (Bengaluru, India) and Anirban Mitra (Kolkata, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Range information associated with one or more objects is received from a storage system. One or more missing ranges and/or one or more mismatched ranges associated with the one or more objects is determined based on the received range inform...