ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,746, issued on June 24, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Systems and methods for performing data backups using a persistent cache" was invented by Andrey Kuleshov (Belgrade, Serbia), Yuri Per (Netanya, Israel), Serg Bell (Costa del Sol, Singapore) and Stanislav Protsaov (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and method for performing data backups using a persistent cache. A method may include storing at least one archive metadata page of a plurality of archive metadata pages in a local persistent cache, wherein the archive metadata pages are associated with a plu...