ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,977, issued on March 18, was assigned to Commvault Systems Inc. (Tinton Falls, N.J.).

"Continuously run log backup with minimal configuration and resource usage from the source machine" was invented by Jun H. Ahn (Manalapan, N.J.), Prasad Nara (Manalapan, N.J.) and Sri Karthik Bhagi (Morganville, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for performing continuous transaction log backups with minimal resource usage of the client computing devices that are processing the transactions is disclosed. The system detects at least one input/output (I/O) activity at a client computing device. The I/O activity can be associated with at lea...