ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,297, issued on July 8, was assigned to Commvault Systems Inc. (Tinton Falls, N.J.).

"Protection of virtual private cloud configurations" was invented by Henry Wallace Dornemann (Eatontown, N.J.), Anita Joseph (Thrissur, India), Karthikeyan Natarajan (Thiruninravur, India), Mathew Ericson (Eltham, Australia) and Sri Manjari Vankayala (Visakhapatnam, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The methods and systems described herein provide a solution for protecting configuration data associated with a virtual private cloud. Network configurations, accounts, and/or security data may be collected from the host of the virtual private network us...