US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on March 4 for "Autonomous data sharding and topology alterations for disaster recovery preparation" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,362, issued on March 4, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Autonomous data sharding and topology alterations for disaster recovery preparation" was invented by John S. Werner (Fishkill, N.Y.), Elton de Souza (Scarborough, Canada), Sneha Mary Varghese (Fishkill, N.Y.), Diane Marie Stamboni (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.) and Kavita Sehgal (Poughkeepsie, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a computer system for data sharding and topology alterations for disaster recovery preparation. A computer system estimates time needed to copy a data store of a ...