ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,825, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Multi-phase file recovery from cloud environments" was invented by Abdullah Reza (Gilroy, Calif.) and Vijay Karthik (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for recovering files from a filesystem stored across sparse files in a cloud environment is described. According to the method, a data management system may receive a request to read the files. The data management system may identify one or more target address ranges corresponding to the files indicated via the request. The data management system may read index information for the sparse fil...