ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,284, issued on April 21, was assigned to Commvault Systems Inc. (Tinton Falls, N.J.).

"Adaptive data protection for a multi-node data cluster" was invented by Sunil Babu Telagamsetti (Eatontown, N.J.), Joel Howard (Rio Rancho, N.M.), Punit Pranesh Koujalgi (Bangalore, India), Ganesh Kishan Babu (Uttara Kannada, India) and Meera R. Nair (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illustrative data storage management system protects data in a replicated multi-node system ("cluster"). The illustrative system creates a new administrative entity ("pseudo-client") that represents the cluster within the system. The system intellige...