ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,866, issued on June 17, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Metadata search, filtering, and aggregation using indexes" was invented by Shivanshu Agrawal (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Daniel Hefenbrock (Seattle), Muraliraja Muniraju (Fremont, Calif.), Anshul M. Gupta (San Jose, Calif.) and Takeshi Suzuki (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 obtain metadata associated with a snapshot stored by the DMS and including information associated with data paths in the snapshot. The DMS may scan an index registry for identif...