ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,478, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Traffic routing in backup and recovery of non-addressable hosts" was invented by Rajesh Kumar Jaiswal (Bangalore, India), Jiangbin Luo (Cupertino, Calif.) and Fan Du (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for data management are described. A data management system (DMS) may provide backup and recovery services to one or more non-addressable hosts within a network. The DMS may receive a packet from a host within the network. A source internet protocol (IP) address of the packet, when received at the DMS, may be an IP ad...