ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,494, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).
"Determining risks in data backups" was invented by Louie A. Dickens (Vernon, Ariz.), Tara Astigarraga (Fairport, N.Y.), Maunik Patel (Tucson, Ariz.) and Robert Efrain Jenkins (Leander, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention provide computer-implemented methods, computer program product, and computer systems. One or more processors, in response to receiving a request to execute a backup operation, determine that backup software targeted to perform the request includes a signature associated with training da...