ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,211, issued on March 25, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Container based application reification" was invented by Ajaykrishna Raghavan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Tarun Thakur (Fremont, Calif.) and Prasenjit Sarkar (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments disclosed herein provide systems, methods, and computer readable media for container based application reification. In a particular embodiment, an application reification system is provided including one or more computer readable storage media and a processing system operatively coupled with the one or more computer readable storage media. The appl...