ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,656, issued on July 14, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Data validation of container objects in a deduplication storage system" was invented by Richard Phillip Mayo (Bristol, Great Britain), Peter Thomas Camble (Bristol, Great Britain) and Callum Murray (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example implementations relate to operations in a storage system. An example includes receiving a data unit to be stored in a persistent storage of a deduplication storage system, and identifying a container index that includes metadata regarding the data unit. The example also includes ...