ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,862, issued on May 13, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Multi-channel backup system" was invented by Vaibhav Bhagee (Delhi, India), Abhishek Goyal (Punjab, India), Nicolas Groh (Marignac Laspeyres, France), Kshitiz Jain (Bengaluru, India), Nitin Rathor (Mountain View, Calif.), Sankaran Sivathanu (Chennai Tamilnadu, India), Toshad Salwekar (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Alok Srivastava (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for backing up data to a distributed multichannel storage system. One method includes an operation for detecting, by a distributed backup sy...