ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,566, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Hewlett Packard Enterprise Development LP (Spring, Texas).

"Program recovery" was invented by Aswin Jayaraman (Karnataka, India), Sankar Ramasamy (Karnataka, India) and Sijesh Thondapilly Balakrishnan (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a system receives a request to recover a program. The system accesses metadata associated with a recovery copy of information for the program, and determines, based on the metadata, a compatibility of a storage arrangement of data in the recovery copy with the program. The system determines whether to fully recover the program usin...