ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,304, issued on July 29, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"Validation of the backup consistency using machine learning for boot screenshot recognition" was invented by Vasily Semyonov (Sofia, Bulgaria), Evgenii Kabantsev (Maastricht, Netherlands), Mikhail Rybakov (Istanbul), Anton Enakiev (Sofia, Bulgaria), Serg Bell (Costa del Sol, Singapore), Stanislav Protasov (Singapore) and Ivan Krestinin (Turin, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for validating the consistency of a computer backup mounts the backup as a virtual machine on a hypervisor host. A screenshot of the virtual ...