US Patent Issued to Oracle International on Sept. 15 for "Distributed data store for efficient snapshot management using collocated metadata" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,322, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Distributed data store for efficient snapshot management using collocated metadata" was invented by Siddharth Choudhary (Belmont, Calif.), Dongqiao Ma (San Jose, Calif.), Jingtao Xu (Fremont, Calif.), Nilesh Choudhury (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Vinodh Kumar Kamattathil Ravindran (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer program product, system, and computer implemented method for an approach to manage objects that tightly couple snapshots and clone management together. Specifically, the present disclosure provides for an ap...