ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,796, issued on March 25, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Smart coalescing in data management systems" was invented by Bristy Sikder (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Vijay Karthik (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Abdullah Reza (Gilroy, Calif.) and Siddharth Bidasaria (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a data management and storage (DMS) platform, comprises peer DMS nodes in a node cluster, a distributed data store comprising local and cloud storage, and at least one processor configured to perform operations in a method of creating a local consolidated patch file from a patch file chain stored in the cloud ...