ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,930, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Identifier mapping techniques for cross node consistency" was invented by Sandeep Kanyal (Bangalore, India) and Rajesh Kumar Jaiswal (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for data management are described. A server hosted by a storage node within a cluster of a data management system (DMS) may receive a request to access a file stored in a distributed file system. The request may be associated with a security identifier (SID). The server may transmit an indication of the SID to a shared repository accessible to the clust...