ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,775, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Rubrik Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Life cycle management for standby databases" was invented by Bala Sunil Kandi (Dublin, Calif.) and Peter John Milanese (Effort, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for establishing a second database and maintaining synchronization between a first database and the second database in a data management system are described. According to the method, a snapshot of a state of the first database may be acquired and mounted to a second server. The second database may be restored to the second server based on the mount. The second database may replicate the sta...