ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,264, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to DELL PRODUCTS LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Attribute based asset discovery for intelligent protection" was invented by Sunil Yadav (Bangalore, India) and Aaditya Rakesh Bansal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the invention relate to methods and systems for backing up user defined logical assets. In accordance with one or more embodiments, a user may define a logical asset type prior to a backup being performed. The user may define the logical asset type based on any rules, filters, or attributes of files and/or folders stored in a file system. Once the user has defi...