US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 17 for "Dynamic adaptation of backup policy schemes based on threat confidence" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,591, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic adaptation of backup policy schemes based on threat confidence" was invented by Michael E. Gildein (Wappingers Falls, N.Y.) and Tabari Alexander (Hyde Park, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method and apparatus for data backup. A first backup of a computing system is generated at a first time. A first confidence of compromise level of the computing system for the first time is generated. The first backup is stored along with metadata, where the metadata comprises the first confidence of compromise level of the computing system at...