ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,295, issued on July 8, was assigned to Own Data Co. Ltd (Tel Aviv, Israel).

"Selective high frequency backup" was invented by Thomas K. Cheriyan (Scarsdale, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for selectively creating high frequency data backups. One of the methods includes maintaining configuration data that indicates a backup frequency at which backups are scheduled to be made for a database, and third party data that identifies one or more predicted events in a geographic area in which the database is physically located; determining, usi...