US Patent Issued to Commvault Systems on Nov. 18 for "Smart recovery of backup copies based on threat analysis" (New Jersey, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,226, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Commvault Systems Inc. (Tinton Falls, N.J.).

"Smart recovery of backup copies based on threat analysis" was invented by Jitin Jindal (Tinton Falls, N.J.), Arun Prasad Amarendran (Manalapan, N.J.), Raghuveer Sagar (Eatontown, N.J.), David M. Cunningham (Toms River, N.J.) and Vijayan Thanasekaran (Union City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "After completion of a backup job, the illustrative system performs a threat analysis of the freshly generated backup copies. Each copy is restored at a secure storage area. The system scans the restored data using, preferably, a signature-based malware s...