ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,801, issued on May 6, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Scheduling backups on a primary database in a high-availability configuration" was invented by Navneet Upadhyay (Greater Noida, India), Rejith Mohan M (Bengaluru, India), Xiaoliang Zhu (Shanghai), Shaofeng Chang (Shanghai), Ban Wang (Burlington, Canada), Pati Mohan (Bangalore, India) and Amith Ramachandran (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, embodiments relate to a method for backing up databases, the method includes receiving a backup request, wherein the backup request specifies a role of primary and an asset group identifier for a...