ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,140, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).
"Continuous data protection using retroactive backup snapshots" was invented by Adrian Kunzle (New York), Ariel Berkman (Herzliya, Israel), Etai Litov (Gan Yavne, Israel) and Jason K. S. Choy (Short Hills, N.J.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, storage systems and computer program products create a transactionally consistent backup of a database by generating, during a time period beginning with a first time and ending with a second time, a copy of the database including multiple tables. During the time period, queries that request updates to the tables ar...