ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,868, issued on May 13, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Prioritized recovery of files during failback" was invented by Kaushik Gupta (Pune, India) and Shiv S. Kumar (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system can maintain a record of first files that have been accessed via at least one of a group of priority user accounts, wherein the record is maintained as a least recently used structure, and wherein the first files belong to a group of files. The system can, in response to determining that the group of files is to be backed up, traverse the record of files from a head of the least recently used struc...