ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,929, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Moving window data deduplication in distributed storage" was invented by Pavlo Padinker (Redmond, Wash.), Pavan Edara (Redmond, Wash.) and Bigang Li (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure describes a service which provides primary in-line deduplication. A streaming application program interface (API) may allow for streaming records into a storage system with high throughput and low latency. As part of this process, the API allows user to add identifiers as a field used for data deduplication. The deduplication service keeps a m...