ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,241, issued on June 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Granular level prioritized smart data protection using decision trees" was invented by Avinash Kumar (Patna, India), Mahesh Reddy Av (Bangalore, India) and Terry O'Callaghan (Hopkinton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data protection system utilizes certain supervised learning processes to implement a granular level prioritized protection scheme for critical data based on decision tree processing. This process provides intelligent backup protection not only at the asset or sub-asset level, but also at the molecular level to meet the desired level of p...