ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,747, issued on June 24, was assigned to Commvault Systems Inc. (Tinton Falls, N.J.).

"Back up and restore related data on different cloud storage tiers" was invented by Prasad Nara (Manalapan, N.J.), Manoj Kumar Vijayan (Marlboro, N.J.) and Ho-Chi Chen (Marlboro, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Presented herein are systems and methods for backing up and restoring related backup data stored in different cloud storage tiers in a cloud storage environment. Backup data generated during a backup job is stored to different cloud storage tiers based on the type of data and a storage policy comprising designations of a first cloud storag...