ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,794, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Relational software-as-a-service data protection" was invented by Anshul Gupta (Mountain View, Calif.), Sai Kiran Katuri (Santa Clara, Calif.), Amelia Vu (Mountain View, Calif.), Ayush Mishra (Patna, India), Suman Swaroop (San Francisco) and Vaibhav Bhagee (New Delhi).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for data management are described. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications may host customers' information in a distributed environment that is not directly accessible to the customers. SaaS applications may store data in the form of re...