ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,039, issued on April 15, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Intelligent file and filegroup reorganizer for backup and restore in multi environments" was invented by Praveen Kumar Trivedi (Gujarat, India), Anshuman Mohanty (Telangana, India), Venugopala Rao Randhi (Telangana, India) and Rama Venkata Kavali (Frisco, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for restoring a source database to a target environment. The methods and systems may include calculating an amount of data on each drive of the source database. The methods and systems may include calculating free space of each drive...