ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,590, issued on June 2, was assigned to EVERPURE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Detecting modifications to recently stored data" was invented by Ronald Karr (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detecting modifications to recently stored data, including: generating, in a storage system, a set of fingerprints of stored data that is associated with recently received I/O requests; in response to receiving a write request, generating a fingerprint of write data of the write request; determining that at least a partial fingerprint match exists between one or more fingerprints of the set of fingerprints and the fingerprint of the w...