ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,166, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"Self-organization of data storage" was invented by Harinath Meedinti Bhaskara Reddy (Charlotte, N.C.), Manu Kurian (Dallas), Jayachandra Varma (Irvington, Texas), Erica Perkins (Charlotte, N.C.) and Aeric Solow (Richardson, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a method of storing an incoming dataset in a data mesh. The method may include a plurality of steps. The steps may include associating a metadata tag with a classifying feature and a storage instruction in a (first) relational database. The steps may include scanning incoming da...