ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,212, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to EMC IP Holding Co. LLC (Hopkinton, Mass.).

"Method and apparatus for phased transition of legacy systems to a next generation backup infrastructure" was invented by Mahesh Kamath (Bangalore, India), Savitha Bijoy (Trivandrum, India) and Jayashree Radha (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One example method includes [searching a legacy data backup system and identifying, in the legacy data backup system, a legacy backup asset, identifying a type of the legacy backup asset, creating a wrapper service instance that corresponds to the type of the legacy backup asset, detaching the lega...