US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on April 22 for "Generational access to safeguarded copy source volumes" (Arizona, New York, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,574, issued on April 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Generational access to safeguarded copy source volumes" was invented by Theresa Mary Brown (Tucson, Ariz.), Dale F Riedy (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.), William J. Rooney (Hopewell Junction, N.Y.), Scott B. Compton (Hyde Park, N.Y.), Gregory Edward McBride (Vail, Ariz.) and John R. Paveza (Morgan Hill, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Ensuring that enterprise data that has potentially become corrupted is recoverable and usable by creating safeguarded copy volumes of the enterprise data. One important aspect of any corruption detection scheme is ...