US Patent Issued to Dell Products on July 14 for "Method and apparatus for snapshot management" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,684,012, issued on July 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method and apparatus for snapshot management" was invented by Benjamin A. Randolph (Uxbridge, Mass.), Jeremy O'Hare (Westborough, Mass.), Bruce Ferjulian (Hudson, Mass.) and Ramesh Doddaiah (Westborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, comprising: executing an embedded malware detector, the embedded malware detector being executed inside a first guest operating system, the first guest operating system being executed on a storage processor that is part of a storage system, the storage processor being configured to execute one or more second g...