ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,244,602, issued on March 4, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Automatic user group manager" was invented by Nickolay Berko (Schaffhausen, Switzerland), Serg Bell (Singapore) and Stanislav Protasov (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system of automatically managing assignments of users to user groups comprises a processor to implement instructions for an automatic user group manage (AUGM) to access to two or more users and the assignments of the users to the user groups, observe activity of the users, calculate user behavior signatures for one of at least two users of the users, at least one...