ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,749, issued on June 24, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Time variation protection for snapshots" was invented by Vijay Karthik (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Stephen Charles O'Hara-Smith (Tralee, Ireland), Sandeep Majji (Vizianagaram, India), Samyak Jain (Jaipur, India) and Aman Bansal (Jaipur, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for data management are described. A monotonically increasing time source that indicates an elapsed time since a reference event may be activated. Multiple snapshots of a computing object may be generated in accordance with a schedule for backing up the computing object, where the schedul...