ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,296, issued on April 14, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"System and techniques for backing up scalable computing objects" was invented by Sai Kiran Katuri (Santa Clara, Calif.), Prateek Pandey (Bangalore, India), Jihang Lim (Milpitas, Calif.) and Amelia Vu (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data management system (DMS) may support the backing up of scalable computing objects, such as hierarchical computing objects. For example, the DMS may backup a computing system and facilitate that capture and storage of snapshots of the computing system. The DMS may determine to capture a first snapshot of ...