ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,916, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Data protection using policy-based digital vault rotation" was invented by Roman Bober (Ha Darom, Israel), Maxim Balin (Gan-Yavne, Israel) and Stav Sapir (Beer Sheba, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for data protection using policy-based digital vault rotation. One method comprises obtaining data to be stored; selecting one of multiple digital vaults; and storing the data in the selected digital vault, wherein a different one of the multiple digital vaults is selected using a rotation policy in response to rotation criteria be...