ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,846, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to DELTA ELECTRONICS INC. (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

"Distributed data backup, restore and synchronization method for multiple devices" was invented by Chun-Fu Lai (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data backup, restore, and synchronization methods for multiple devices are provided. The data backup method applied for a local device of the multiple devices includes 1) sending a querying packet including a group identifier to at least one of the multiple devices to search for at least one backup provider; 2) receiving at least one response packet including the group identifier to make a backup pl...