ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,209, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Entrust Corp. (Shakopee, Minn.).

"System and method for performing a dedicated backup in a containerized environment" was invented by Carles De Haro (Barcelona, Spain) and David Mateos (Barcelona, Spain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A process for performing a dedicated backup in a containerized environment is provided. In example aspects, a backup pod performs a backup process for an associated application. The backup pod is customized to contain backup tools that are specific to the backup process for the associated application. The backup pod works in connection with a backup manager that ma...