ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,676, issued on March 3, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Enforcing full backup when role switch occurs in a database in a high-availability configuration" was invented by Navneet Upadhyay (Greater Noida, India), Rejith Mohan M (Bengaluru, India), Xiaoliang Zhu (Shanghai), Shaofeng Chang (Shanghai) and Amith Ramachandran (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In general, embodiments relate to a method for backing up databases, the method includes receiving a first backup request, wherein the first backup request specifies a role and an asset group identifier for an asset group, identifying, based on the...