ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,311, issued on May 13, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Cost-optimized true zero recovery time objective for multiple applications" was invented by Bing Liu (Tianjin, China), Jehuda Shemer (Kfar Saba, Israel), Kfir Wolfson (Beer Sheva, Israel) and Jawad Said (Kfar Yasif, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Data protection operations including replication operations are disclosed. Virtual machines, applications, and/or application data are replicated according to at least one strategy. The replication strategy can improve performance of the recovery operation."

The patent was filed on Feb. 8, 2024, under ...