ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,419, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Continuous data protection" was invented by Akshat Vig (Seattle), Tate Andrew Certain (Seattle) and Go Hori (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Changes made to a database table are accumulated, in durable storage, and snapshots of partitions of the table are obtained. For successive snapshots of a partition, the system accesses a previous snapshot, applies changes from the accumulated changes, and stores the updated snapshot to a durable data store. The accumulated changes and the successive partition snapshots are made available to restore the database ...