ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,506, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Automated data protection workflow for containerized applications" was invented by Sandeep Kumar Prajapati (Pune, India), James Patrick Smith (Redwood City, Calif.) and Lisa Anne Huston (Rochester, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes a processor that executes computer executable components stored in a memory. The computer executable components include an application identification component that identifies a new imperative application where recovery workflow for the new imperative application is unavailable. The computer ...