US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 17 for "Database backup and recovery strategy optimization" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,749, issued on June 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Database backup and recovery strategy optimization" was invented by Barbara Wald (Weil im Schoenbuch, Germany), Stefan Schmitt (Holzgerlingen, Germany), Ephraim Petry (Stuttgart, Germany) and Oliver Rau (Pirmasens, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computer-implemented methods for optimizing a backup and recovery strategy of a database are provided. Aspects include obtaining service level agreements for the database, identifying an initial recommended database backup and recovery strategy for the database based on the service level agr...