ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,892, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Storage agnostic data path interception for transparent snapshot data protection in containerized environments" was invented by Nomi Michaels (Beit Shemesh, Israel), Jehuda Shemer (Kfar Saba, Israel), Ofir Ezrielev (Be'er Sheva, Israel), Bar Kliger (Ramat Hakovesh, Israel), Yehuda Rimon (Be'er Sheva, Israel) and Yehonatan Israeli (Kfar Saba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An agnostic data path interception in containerized environments is disclosed. A protection container configured to perform an operation such as a data protection operation is pack...