ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,626, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Storage tiering for computing system snapshots" was invented by Shivanshu Agrawal (Seattle), Gaurav Maheshwari (Jaipur, India), Anuj Mittal (Mathura, India), Kritagya Dabi (Indore, India), Nitin Patil (Bangalore, India), Arpit Kathuria (Chandigarh, India), Archit Gupta (Mountain View, Calif.) and Srikanth Hanumanula (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data management system (DMS) may facilitate the storage tiering of snapshots on cloud environments. For example, the DMS may transmit snapshot signaling to a first cloud environment that instru...