ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,770, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Commvault Systems Inc. (Tinton Falls, N.J.).

"Application environment recovery using cloud-based immutable storage devices" was invented by Govindarajan Rangasamy (Holliston, Mass.), Sujai Subburayan Dakshinamoorthy (Coimbatore, India) and Chakkaravarthi Barathi Thangaraj (Coimbatore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example method includes identifying cloud services of a distributed software system deployed in a cloud platform. The cloud services are specific to a first cloud account. Further, dependencies associated with the cloud services may be determined. Furthermore, metadata includi...