ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,750, issued on June 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Cyber recovery forensics kit-efficient event searching over pits" was invented by Ofir Ezrielev (Beer Sheva, Israel), Jehuda Shemer (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Amihai Savir (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes searching a group of PITs, identifying one of the PITs as having an indicator of an occurrence of an event involving data associated with the identified PIT, restoring the data, running a production system copy using the data, and while the production system copy is running, taking increasingly granular backups of the data unti...