ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,057, issued on June 23, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Geographically dispersed backup and recovery system with dynamic resource allocation and load balancing" was invented by Pankaj Pande (Carlingford, Australia) and Mengze Liao (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing data protection includes monitoring, by a data protection service, data protection requests issued by a set of client devices to obtain telemetry data, wherein the set of client devices are associated with a geographic location, performing a resource analysis on the telemetry data to determine a centralized backup system (...