ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,423, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Preliminary processing for data management of data objects" was invented by Ganesh Karuppur Rajagopalan (Los Gatos, Calif.), Pandian Raju (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Prakhar Kumar (Gurugram, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for data management are described. A first procedure for capturing first point-in-time data for a data object may be performed and may include initiating a first type of operation to back up the first point-in-time data, the first operation being native to the data object and enabling sections of files to be bac...