ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,674, issued on May 12, was assigned to Cohesity Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Automatically managing access policies for archived objects" was invented by Nagapramod Mandagere (Los Altos, Calif.), Abhishek Sharma (Newark, Calif.), Venkata Ranga Radhanikanth Guturi (San Jose, Calif.), Anirudh Kumar (San Jose, Calif.) and Dane Van Dyck (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An archival storage of data backed up from a repository storage of a primary storage is maintained. Access to data stored in archival storage is limited by one or more access policies based on whether a corresponding data restore has been authorized. A request for sp...