US Patent Issued to Nutanix on Feb. 24 for "Technique to compute deltas between any two arbitrary snapshots in a deep snapshot repository" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,208, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Technique to compute deltas between any two arbitrary snapshots in a deep snapshot repository" was invented by Abhishek Gupta (Vasundhara Ghaziabad, India), Andrey Alexseyevich Pyatkov (Seattle), Angshuman Bezbaruah (Redmond, Wash.), Artem Yevgenyevich Livshits (Bellevue, Wash.), Brajesh Kumar Shrivastava (Bihar, India), Akshay Pandita (Jammu and Kashmir, India) and Manan Shah (Newark, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A differencing technique enables efficient retrieval of data from one of a substantial number of point-in-time images (e.g., snapshots) main...