ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,395,375, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to AKIMBO TECHNOLOGIES INC. (British Columbia, Canada).

"Fault tolerant distributed computing" was invented by Behrouz Poustchi (North Vancouver, Canada) and Jean-philippe Lemieux (North Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems, and techniques for fault tolerant distributed computing. At least three fault tolerant messages are generated. The generating involves obtaining a first initial message identifier; mapping the initial message identifier to at least three different fault tolerant identifiers; and using the at least three different fault tolerant identifiers to ident...