ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,594, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Two-phase snapshot recovery" was invented by Abdullah Reza (Gilroy, Calif.), Vijay Karthik (Santa Clara, Calif.), Siddharth Bidasaria (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Bristy Sikder (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a data management and storage (DMS) platform comprises peer DMS nodes in a node cluster, a distributed data store comprising local and cloud storage, and at least one processor configured to perform operations in a method of creating a local consolidated patch file from a patch file chain stored in the cloud storage. Example ...