ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,783, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Partial database restoration" was invented by Pin Zhou (San Jose, Calif.) and Prasenjit Sarkar (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a system that restores a database by processing a portion of the database. The system restores the database to a previous state at a particular time by reverting data entries that have changed since the time to their initial values before the change. Data entries that have changed after the restore time are identified. For the data entries that have changed after the restore time, their initial valu...