US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Aug. 5 for "Synchronous cross-region replication for a multi-writer database" (Washington, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,129, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Synchronous cross-region replication for a multi-writer database" was invented by Alexander Richard Keyes (Seattle), Somasundaram Perianayagam (Seattle), Douglas Brian Terry (San Francisco) and Akshat Vig (Medina, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database table may be synchronously replicated across regions of a provider network. When a write request to an item of the table is received at one region, a local version of the item may be obtained as well as any additional versions of the item corresponding to inflight writes that target the item from a mult...