US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on July 28 for "Detecting clean backups and snapshots for subsequent data recovery operations" (New York, California, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,694,112, issued on July 28, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Detecting clean backups and snapshots for subsequent data recovery operations" was invented by Gokul Bhargava Kandiraju (Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.), M Corneliu Constantinescu (San Jose, Calif.), Leo Shyh-Wei Luan (Saratoga, Calif.), Ramanjaneya Sarma Burugula (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.), Sangeetha Seshadri (Plano, Texas), Shafiqul Abedin (San Jose, Calif.) and Wayne C. Hineman (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Mechanisms are provided for identifying clean backups of a monitored computing system. A backup of a state of a computing s...