ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,317, issued on June 3, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Techniques for archived log deletion" was invented by Pandian Raju (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "During a backup a procedure, a first storage entity may backup a set of database logs from a second storage entity and metadata associated with the set of database logs may be stored in a log deletion table. In accordance with a user configuration of the second storage entity and the backup procedure, a first command to delete one or more database logs of the set from the second storage entity may be transmitted to the second storage entity. The lo...