ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,746, issued on March 3, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Integrating change tracking of storage objects of a distributed object storage database into a distributed storage system" was invented by Richard Parvin Jernigan IV (Sewickley, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one embodiment, distributed data storage systems and methods integrate a change tracking manager with scalable databases. According to one embodiment, a computer implemented method comprises integrating change tracking of storage objects into the distributed object storage database that includes a first database of a first type and one or more chapte...