ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,219, issued on May 27, was assigned to Acronis International GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"System and method for data classification using machine learning during archiving" was invented by Sergey Ulasen (St. Petersburg, Russia), Mark Shmulevich (Moscow), Stanislav Protasov (Moscow) and Serguei Beloussov (Costa del Sol, Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are systems and methods for data archiving using machine learning techniques. The system collects statistical information and event data and processes them using machine learning techniques to classify data and/or predict data access demands. The system receives ...