ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,080, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to ARMIQ Co. Ltd. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Data archiving method and system for minimizing cost of data transmission and retrieval" was invented by Oxoo Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Sehun Jung (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a data archiving method and system capable of reducing the cost of transmitting and retrieving archived data by determining a transmission capacity or a retrieval capacity according to at least one of a characteristic of a storage system and a charging system in a process of transmitting at least some of data stored in a target system for archivin...