ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,263, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Generation-based protection set synchronization" was invented by Abhishek Dharmapurikar (San Jose, Calif.), Rajath Subramanyam (San Jose, Calif.) and Li Ding (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for data management are described. A data management system (DMS) may maintain a set of backup parameters for backups of data stored by a computing system. The computing system may store a copy of the set of backup parameters. The set of backup parameters may be modified at the DMS, the computing system, or both. To synchronize...