ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,892, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).
"Backup data consolidation" was invented by Vijay Karthik (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Abdullah Reza (Gilroy, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage system may store one or more snapshots of a computing system to support backup and restoration of data stored at the computing system. The storage system may identify an expiration of a first snapshot indicating a first set of physical storage locations to which first data of the computing system was stored as part of a first backup procedure. The storage system may identify a first subset physical storage locatio...