ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,212, issued on July 1, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"System and method for data protection" 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 receiving a first metadata corresponding to a first batch of files, determining a set of rules for backup locations based on the first metadata, initiating a backup operation of a second batch of files, where the backup operation includes the set of rules, receiving a second metadata corresponding to a first file of the second batch of files, applying the set of rules...