ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,194, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Disaster recovery for private-network data backup and recovery systems" was invented by Manjunath Chinni (Saratoga, Calif.), Jonathan Chon (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Nicholas De Leon (Porter Ranch, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for data management are described. A client of a backup and recovery system may recover a virtual machine (VM) within a private network based on a previously-obtained snapshot of the VM. The VM may host a backup and recovery system for one or more computing objects within the private network prior t...