ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,286, issued on April 21, was assigned to Commvault Systems Inc. (Tinton Falls, N.J.).

"Protecting critical information of an application orchestrator deployment, such as an etcd data store in a kubernetes cluster" was invented by Amit Mitkar (Manalapan, N.J.), Srinivas Govind Kundaram (Solapur, India), Shankarbabu Bhavanarushi (Hyderabad, India), Arun Prasad Amarendran (Manalapan, N.J.) and Rohit Himmatrao Dikkar (Pune, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Protecting configuration data in a clustered container system may include, in some embodiments, protecting an ETCD data store in a Kubernetes cluster. A data storage management sy...