ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,454, issued on April 22, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for data protection using machine learning" was invented by Sunil Yadav (Punjab, India) and Shelesh Chopra (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for information recovery includes providing a set of rules to hosts, where each host performs a backup operation using the set of rules by sending at least one file to at least one backup location. The method also includes receiving, from each host, a first metadata corresponding to files backed up in the backup operation, where the metadata from each host forms a set of metad...