ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,168, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Charge-back/show-back operations using dynamic datasets in a content-based data protection system" was invented by Adam Brenner (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Jehuda Shemer (Kfar Saba, Israel), Steven Sadhwani (Round Rock, Texas), Valerie Lotosh (Ramat-Gan, Israel), Erez Sharvit (Ramat-Gan, Israel) and Chris E. Rowen (Bedford, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Performing charge/showback operations in a large-scale data system by scanning multiple data sources to identify data objects for processing as a unitary group with respect to common characteristics that...