ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,438, issued on July 7, was assigned to HUGGING FACE INC. (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

"Cross-silo data storage and deduplication" was invented by Yucheng Low (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Ajit Banerjee (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Rajat Arya (Brooklyn, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some aspects, a computing system may generate a content-defined tree. A content-defined tree may be a tree of cryptographic hashes where each leaf is a hash of a chunk (e.g., data chunk) of a data object, and each parent node (e.g., interior node) is the hash of a concatenation of the hashes of the parent's children nodes. To create parent nodes for the leaf nodes, a computing s...