ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,638, issued on April 8, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Reservation persistence in distributed block storage systems" was invented by Barak Pinhas (Ganei Tikva, Israel), Swapnil Vinay Dinkar (Seattle), Andrew Boyer (Bainbridge Island, Wash.), Yonatan Divinsky (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Alex Friedman (Hadera, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage object and an associated permissions record is stored at a storage server. The permissions record indicates that some storage consumers are not permitted to perform a type of I/O operation on the storage object. In response to detecting that an event of a deletion t...