ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,210, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Data backup and recovery using cache-coherent interconnect node-based non-volatile memory" was invented by Richard Marian Thomaiyar (Karnataka, India), Ankur Garg (Redmond, Wash.), Karunakara Kotary (Redmond, Wash.) and Pannerkumar Rajagopal (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for implementing data backup and recovery using cache-coherent interconnect node-based non-volatile memory. A cache-coherent interconnect node partitions a memory pool into a plurality of memory regions as well as a backup ...