ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,785, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Commvault Systems Inc. (Tinton Falls, N.J.).

"Backup of containerized applications using a backup services container and a backup services container-orchestration pod" was invented by Amit Mitkar (Manalapan, N.J.), Sumedh Pramod Degaonkar (Sammamish, Wash.), Sanjay Kumar (Morganville, N.J.), Shankarbabu Bhavanarushi (Hyderabad, India) and Vikash Kumar (Edison, N.J.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A "backup services container" comprises "backup toolkits," which include scripts for accessing containerized applications plus enabling utilities/environments for executing the scripts. The backup servi...