ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,545, issued on June 2, was assigned to Cohesity Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Adaptive 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: "A backup of one or more objects is determined to be performed. Based on one or more conditions, a corresponding deduplication option among a plurality of deduplication options to utilize when backing up the one or more objects is selected. The one or more conditions at least include a condition based...