ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,849, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Investigation procedures for virtual machines" was invented by Anita Thomas (San Jose, Calif.), Wenchun Cheng (Los Altos, Calif.), Shaomin Chen (San Jose, Calif.), Junchao Zhang (Newark, Calif.), Hongbo Zou (Santa Clara, Calif.), Scott Wang (Fremont, Calif.) and Abhishek Kumar (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data management system (DMS) may facilitate an investigation procedure for a set of one or more virtual machines (VMs) hosted in a first environment. The DMS may receive an indication of a selection of one or more sets of VMs and correspond...