US Patent Issued to Vanguard Group on April 22 for "Methods, systems, and devices for data recovery and backup" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,395, issued on April 22, was assigned to Vanguard Group Inc. (Valley Forge, Pa.).

"Methods, systems, and devices for data recovery and backup" was invented by Nathan G Welshans (Jersey Shore, Pa.), Timothy James Emrick (King of Prussia, Pa.), Ryan Michael Spatz (Reading, Pa.) and John Edward Beck Jr. (Philadelphia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for efficient data recovery via change block tracking and replication comprising storing data using secured and immutable storage snapshots from a plurality of first devices on a plurality of storage arrays via a first network path and a second network path, determining a co...