ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,758, issued on April 29, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Snapshot and restoration of distributed file system" was invented by Vijay Karthik (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Anshul Gupta (Mountain View, Calif.), Abhay Mitra (Santa Clara, Calif.), Vivek Sanjay Jain (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Satwant Rana (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a data management system processes snapshots of a distributed file system, the distributed file system having files, each file comprising multiple data chunks. The data management system performs operations including storing file-to-chunk mapping in file system m...