US Patent Issued to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES on Sept. 15 for "Defined data backup" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,261, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Defined data backup" was invented by Shinsuke Mitsuma (Machida, Japan), Atsushi Abe (Ebina, Japan), Hiroshi Itagaki (Yokohama, Japan), Tohru Hasegawa (Tokyo) and Tsuyoshi Miyamura (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Defined backup using a computerized tool is enabled. For example, a system can comprise a processor that executes computer executable components stored in a computer-readable memory. The computer executable components can include a fragment component that segments data that has not changed since a previous backup o...