ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,681, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Cloud data rewrites using deduplication" was invented by Sayantan Jana (Palo Alto, Calif.), Yashashavi Momyan (Bengaluru, India) and Amit Kundlia (Bengaluru, India).

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 identify two snapshots from two different snapshot chains and rewrite one of the snapshots as a cross-incremental snapshot over the other snapshot that includes differential data relative to the other snapshot. Based on rewriting the snapshot as the cross-incremental snapsh...