ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,561, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Method, device, and computer program product for data backup" was invented by Qianyun Cheng (Chengdu, China), Mengze Liao (Shanghai) and Xiaoliang Zhu (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, a device, and a computer program product for data backup. The method includes determining a group of backup tasks for backing up a data object. The method further includes determining, based on backup types of backup tasks in the group of backup tasks, whether there are a plurality of backup tasks capable of be...