ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,353, issued on July 8, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Batch consolidation of computing object snapshots" was invented by Sayantan Jana (Bangalore, India), Vaiapuri Ramasubramaniam (Bangalore, India) and Shubham Tagra (Bangalore, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for data management are described. A backup cluster may store incremental or base snapshots of computing objects. When a snapshot expires, a data management system (DMS) that manages the backup cluster may in some cases merge or consolidate the expired snapshot with a non-expired snapshot to create a new merged snapshot. In s...