US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on June 23 for "Dynamic use of backup plans in a data storage system" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,056, issued on June 23, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Dynamic use of backup plans in a data storage system" was invented by Matthew G. Borlick (Tucson, Ariz.), Brian Anthony Rinaldi (Tucson, Ariz.), Micah Robison (Tucson, Ariz.) and Lokesh Mohan Gupta (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes determining and using a first backup plan, where the first backup plan details a first number of backup copies of source volumes that are to be created and a first time interval that the first number of backup copies are to be create...