ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,229,011, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Scalable log-based continuous data protection for distributed databases" was invented by Akshat Vig (Seattle), Parikshit Shivajirao Pol (Seattle), Subramanian Sankara Subramanian (Seattle), Rama Krishna Sandeep Pokkunuri (Seattle), Rajaprabhu Thiruchi Loganathan (Issaquah, Wash.) and Harini Chandrasekharan (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In response to determining that continuous data protection is to be enabled for a particular table of a database service, a service component verifies that automated transmission of change records of the table to a l...