ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,297, issued on July 29, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Adaptive throttling in a universal backup host" was invented by Haihong Wang (Fremont, Calif.) and Gopikrishnan Aditya Suresh (Culver City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to throttle a universal backup host are described. The system executes a job, at a backup host, to back up a file set from a source host including fetching metadata from the source host. The system identifies a first operation set from operation sets, the operation set including a first operation. The system communicates, in parallel, requests for metadata items, ove...