ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,212, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Application-aware adaptive sharding for data backup" was invented by Rajesh Kumar Jaiswal (Bengaluru, India), Dharma Bankuru (Bengaluru, India), Pragyan Chakraborty (Bengaluru, India) and Prateek Pandey (Bengaluru, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for data management are described. The method may include determining, by a backup management system and for computing objects that are each associated with a respective application, respective quantities of computing objects associated with each application, determining a quantity ...