ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,038, issued on April 15, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Remote snappable linking" was invented by Rohit Agrawal (Mountain View, Calif.), Mudit Malpani (Mountain View, Calif.) and Prasenjit Sarkar (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a cluster comprises peer nodes and a distributed data store implemented across the peer nodes, a method of remote linking of data objects for data transfer between a first node cluster and a second node cluster among the peer nodes, the method comprising: creating a data object group including multiple remote data objects, wherein a plurality of remote data...