Cobalt Iron Assigned Patent

Cobalt Iron, Inc., Lawrence, KS, has been assigned a patent (11,308,209) developed by Spurlock, Richard Raymond, Marett, Robert Merrill, Kost, James Thomas, Lawrence, KS, and Tevis, Gregory John, Solvang, CA, for “data protection automatic optimization system and method.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “A system includes a memory and at least one processor to disable automatic prioritization of at least one data protection operation in a computer network, begin the at least one data protection operation in the computer network, continually monitor the computer network and determine that a condition has occurred in the computer network, activate automatic prioritization of the at least one data protection operation in the computer network, and instruct backup server tooling software to direct backup data for the at least one data protection operation to move from a first target storage repository to a second target storage repository.”

The patent application was filed on January 18, 2019 (16/251,364).