ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,343, issued on May 19, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Implementing data protection policies based on defined data loss levels" was invented by Adam Brenner (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Arun Murti (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Mark Malamut (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Providing data protection by triggering backups for data protection based on data loss threshold. A protection policy is configured to protect an asset stored in a storage device in a network. A metric representing an amount of change of data of the asset is defined, along with a threshold value of the metric. The system is periodi...