ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,871, issued on March 17, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Data management system" was invented by Arvind Jain (Los Altos, Calif.), Arvind Nithrakashyap (San Francisco), Bipul Sinha (Foster City, Calif.), Soham Mazumdar (San Francisco), Adam Gee (San Francisco), Kenny To (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Jonathan Derryberry (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing, storing, and serving data within a virtualized environment are described. In some embodiments, a data management system may manage the extraction and storage of virtual machine snapshots, provide near instantaneous restorat...