ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,015, issued on May 26, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Time synchronization across independent input/output schedulers" was invented by Nitin Rathor (Mountain View, Calif.) and Keon Jang (Los Altos, 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 include multiple disks. A distributed file system may be stored across the multiple disks. The DMS may receive a request to perform a first job for the distributed file system. The DMS may send the first job for execution, during a time period, by a set of disks. The first job may corre...