ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,991, issued on May 6, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method and system for reconfiguring a data protection module based on metadata" was invented by Gururaj Kulkarni (Bangalore, India), Shelesh Chopra (Bangalore, India) and Mahantesh Ambaljeri (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing a data protection module (DPM) includes: obtaining metadata associated with the DPM; analyzing the metadata to extract relevant data; making, based on the relevant data, a first determination that a resource-related change has occurred in the DPM; making, based on the first determination, a second det...