ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,481, issued on April 7, was assigned to Cohesity Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Prefetching data using predictive analysis" was invented by Sourav Mukherjee (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for prefetching data using predictive analysis. An example method comprises storing, by a data platform implemented by a computing system, objects of a file system, wherein a first subset of the objects is stored to a first storage tier and a second subset of the objects is stored to a second storage tier, classifying objects into one or more classifications, storing a data access record for the objects, appl...