ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,864, issued on May 13, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Predicting replication health with background replication" was invented by Narayan Behera (Pune, India), Shilbin Devassy (Pune, India), Anurag Chandra (Pune, India) and Shiv S. Kumar (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can create a group of at least one file on a source computer. The system can perform iterations of backing up the group of at least one file to a destination computer. The system can store respective job status indications of respective iterations of the iterations of backing up the group of at least one file. The system can,...