ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,912, issued on July 14, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Backup of a SAAS application with relational data" was invented by Jun Xu (Kirkland, Wash.), Jonathan Carlyle Derryberry (Union City, Calif.), Nikita Awasthi (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Harsha Vattem (Sunnyvale, Calif.), David Anthony Terei (New York), Anshul Gupta (Mountain View, Calif.) and Sai Kiran Katuri (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and devices for data management are described. A method may include obtaining a new snapshot of a relational database of a source computing environment, comparing the new snapshot of the relati...