ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,475,000, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Data backup system and method with data consistency using asynchronous data copy" was invented by Satoru Watanabe (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Backup systems and methods create consistent backups across multiple data sets, while integrating ADC technology. To accomplish this, an application group ADC configuring function (APG-ADC configuring function) configures the ADC to ensure that backup data sets remain consistent with those at the original source. The APG-ADC configuring function configures ADC such as to update backup data s...