ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,432,056, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Unified key management" was invented by Pragyan Chakraborty (Bengaluru, India), Sai Kiran Katuri (Santa Clara, Calif.), Prateek Pandey (Bengaluru, India), David Anthony Terei (New York City, N.Y.) and Hao Wu (Mountain View, 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 create a first key family including a first key to encrypt and decrypt first data encryption keys associated with first data management jobs. The DMS may create a second key family after encrypting the f...