ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,825, issued on May 20, was assigned to ALIBABA CLOUD COMPUTING Co. LTD. (Hangzhou, China).

"Method for keeping data consistent across different storage systems, computing device, and storage medium" was invented by Huan Liu (Zhejiang, China), Ruo Wang (Zhejiang, China) and Guoyun Zhu (Zhejiang, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for keeping data consistent across different storage systems are provided. The method includes: when a first storage system is updated, processing first data to be unreadable, and generating or updating a version number corresponding to a first primary key; when the first data is unab...