ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,722, issued on May 20, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Blockchain for cloud data management" was invented by Chendil Kumar Arumugam (Bengaluru, India), Aditi Maheshwari (Jaipur, India) and Animesh Kumar (Navi Mumbai, India).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for data management is described. The method may include generating a first snapshot of a first state of a data object, generating, using metadata associated with the first snapshot of the first state, a first hash value, and storing the first hash value to a blockchain. If the data object or device or system supporting the data object fails, then a failover...