US Patent Issued to Dell Products on March 3 for "Splitting image backups into multiple backup copies" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,674, issued on March 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Splitting image backups into multiple backup copies" was invented by Sunil Yadav (Bangalore, India) and Shelesh Chopra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques described herein relate to a method for performing generating backups of host data. The method may include obtaining, by a data protection agent of a host, a backup request associated with an asset of the host; generating a backup image of the asset; obtaining file system metadata associated with the asset from a file system metadata repository on a storage of the host; identifyin...