ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,839, issued on June 17, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Immutable object locking for snapshot management" was invented by Haritha Elango (Bangalore, India), Prakhar Kumar (Mountain View, Calif.), Partha Dhar (Bangalore, India), Animesh Kumar (Navi Mumbai, India), Gaurav Maheshwari (Bangalore, India) and Srikanth Hanumanula (Mountain View, 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 receive an indication of a storage configuration for an object storage location within a cloud environment. The DMS may generate a snapshot of a...