US Patent Issued to Rubrik on July 7 for "Lightweight consolidation operation for storage space reclamation" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,436, issued on July 7, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Lightweight consolidation operation for storage space reclamation" was invented by Naveen Raju (Bengaluru, India), Vaiapuri Ramasubramaniam (Bengaluru, India), Sarat Kallepalli (Bengaluru, India) and Sayantan Jana (Palo Alto, Calif.).

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 perform a lightweight consolidation operation on an expired snapshot rather than a full consolidation operation that merges the expired snapshot into another snapshot based on one or more snapshot heuristi...