ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,679, issued on April 7, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus providing a tiered elastic cloud storage to increase data resiliency" was invented by Ren Wang (Portland, Ore.), Christian Maciocco (Portland, Ore.), Kshitij Doshi (Tempe, Ariz.), Francesc Guim Bernat (Barcelona, Spain), Ned Smith (Beaverton, Ore.), Satish Jha (Portland, Ore.), Vesh Raj Sharma Banjade (Portland, Ore.) and S M Iftekharul Alam (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture providing a tiered elastic cloud storage to increase data resiliency are disclosed. An example ...