ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,222, issued on July 1, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"System and method for backing up data from edge infrastructures" was invented by Boris Shpilyuck (Ashdod, Israel), Maxim Balin (Gan-Yavne, Israel) and Igor Dubrovsky (Beer Sheva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing a backup system are disclosed. Edge infrastructures may be made up of large numbers of edge devices that produce and store a wide variety of data. A data backup system is implemented to locate and monitor locations of data stored in these edge infrastructures such that users wanting to backup data from these edge...