ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,112, issued on July 22, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Prioritization data restore based on recovery time objectives" was invented by Subramaniyan Nallasivam (Bangalore, India), Dileep Dixith (Hyderabad, India), Siddaraju G C (Mandya, India) and Ankitha S (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods for prioritization of data restoration based on recovery time objectives are provided. Aspects include receiving a request to store an object in a primary data volume, the object being associated with an application operating on a virtual server instance, appending a...