ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,458, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Aggregation of policy information for principals associated with a file system" was invented by Muraliraja Muniraju (Fremont, Calif.), Mudit Malpani (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Fabiano Botelho (Pleasanton, Calif.), Nandish Kotadia (Bangalore, India), Akhil Singh (Bangalore, India) and Adam Gee (Palo Alto, 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 obtain a snapshot of a file system that includes multiple files and permission sets associated with the files. A permission set...