ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,937, issued on July 28, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Low-latency hardware accelerator and persistent memory for inline deduplication systems" was invented by Abhishek Rajimwale (San Jose, Calif.) and Colin Zou (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A processor that executes an inline deduplication pipeline identifies any data segment which is created from data received with a write request from a client, and which is unique relative to data segments stored by the inline deduplication pipeline. The processor logs any segment reference of any data segment which is identified as unique, and any data r...