ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,504, issued on April 21, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Identification and visualization of top-risk objects" was invented by Anam Bhatia (San Jose, Calif.), Yuchia Lin (San Francisco), Daniel Nguyen (San Jose, Calif.), Martin Walter (Livermore, Calif.), Benjamin Travis Meadowcroft (Lincoln, Calif.), Mukul Chandra Singh Bisht (Pleasanton, Calif.) and Oded Klimer (San Jose, 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 may determine risk levels for a plurality of computing objects. A risk level for a computing object is determined bas...