ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,041, issued on March 17, was assigned to Commvault Systems Inc. (Tinton Falls, N.J.).

"Cloud-based air-gapped data storage management system" was invented by Tirthankar Chatterjee (Manalapan, N.J.), Prasad Nara (Manalapan, N.J.) and Manoj Kumar Vijayan (Marlboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative cloud-based air-gapped data storage management (destination) system obtains authorized access to other (source) systems' backup copies, replicates those copies within the destination system, parses supplemental metadata included in the source backup copies, and integrates the replica copies into the destination system as t...