ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,549, issued on March 24, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Backing up database files in a distributed system" was invented by Deepti Kochar (San Mateo, Calif.), Abdullah Reza (Gilroy, Calif.), Prasenjit Sarkar (Los Gatos, Calif.), Prabhu Mohan (San Jose, Calif.), Arjun Sinha (Mountain View, Calif.) and Yanzhe Wang (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 data management system may receive a request to generate backup data for a set of data files from the one or more databases. The data management system may then generate, in response to the...