ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,244, issued on June 3, was assigned to Nutanix Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Dynamic implementation of a backup policy for database recovery" was invented by Adil Gul Rather (Bangalore, India), Akshay Ashok Chandak (Bangalore, India), Altaf Mahmood (Bangalore, India) and Jagadeesh Kumar Dittakavi (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method may include, based on a recovery policy associated with the primary database, creating a first snapshot of the primary database at a primary computing system, replicating the first snapshot of the primary database to a secondary computing system, wherein a backup database of the primary da...