ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,291, issued on July 8, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Obtaining full snapshots for subsets of objects over time" was invented by Haitao He (Redmond, Wash.), Rohit Agrawal (Santa Clara, Calif.), Sujeet Gholap (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Amelia Vu (Mountain View, Calif.), Ningshan Li (Cupertino, Calif.), Richard Yuh (Mountain View, Calif.) and Ramya Thulasingam (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data management system (DMS) may use a staggered full snapshot rollout approach to obtain full snapshots of multiple computing objects. The DMS may identify that a quantity of the multiple objects scheduled for full ba...