ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,289, issued on July 8, was assigned to KASEYA US LLC (Miami).

"Direct-to-cloud backup with local volume failover" was invented by Andrew Cope (Rochester, N.Y.) and Robert Loce (Webster, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure provides methods and systems for direct-to-cloud backup with local volume failover. According to an exemplary embodiment, first and second logical volumes are designated on a protected computing device. The first and second logical volumes may be paired to a cloud storage facility. In response to a received signal, it may be determined if the protected computing device has a communication connection to...