ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,672, issued on March 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Leveraging backup process metadata for cloud object storage selective deletions" was invented by Sunil Yadav (Bangalore, India) and Shelesh Chopra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for leveraging backup process metadata for cloud object storage selective deletions. Under cloud object storage architecture, any unstructured data may be managed and stored in the cloud as objects. Objects thus provide an elastic, scalable format through which unstructured data may be maintained for a variety of purposes, including those direc...