Renew Data Assigned Patent

Renew Data Corp., Austin, TX, has been assigned a patent (8,615,490) developed by four co-inventors for a “method and system for restoring information from backup storage media.”

The co-inventors are Mark Jonathan Platt, Cedar Park, TX, Christopher Kent Pratt, Round Rock, TX, Keith Roger Burns, Austin, TX, and Erik James Omberg, Maple Grove, MN.

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: “First and second partial files are read from first and second storage media, respectively, irrespective of a sequence in which the first and second storage media were originally written relative to one another. The first partial file forms a first portion of a complete file. The second partial file forms a second portion of the complete file. The first and second partial files are combined to extract and form the complete file, without dependence on re-reading the first and second storage media.”

The patent application was filed on Jan. 31, 2008 (12/023,837).