ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,534, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Version control system using content-based datasets and dataset snapshots" was invented by Adam Brenner (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Jehuda Shemer (Kfar Saba, Israel), Steven Sadhwani (Round Rock, Texas), Valerie Lotosh (Ramat-Gan, Israel) and Erez Sharvit (Ramat-Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Managing versioning of data objects for a project revised from a first version to a revised version by producing a dataset representing the data objects as a group by scanning the data objects to identify metadata of the grouped data to be processed similar...