ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,853, issued on March 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Delta anomaly detection for backups of specialized directory service assets" was invented by Sunil Yadav (Punjab, India) and Shelesh Chopra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing access to a file based backup (FBB) includes generating, at a first point-in-time, a first FBB at a first point-in-time, wherein the first FBB comprises a first set of files of an asset at the first point-in-time, generating, at a second point-in-time after the first point-in-time, a second FBB at a second point-in-time, wherein the second FBB compr...