US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on May 27 for "Power-diverse placement for data replicas and authority nodes in network-based storage" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,571, issued on May 27, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Power-diverse placement for data replicas and authority nodes in network-based storage" was invented by Fan Ping (Kenmore, Wash.), Sriram Venugopal (Issaquah, Wash.), Matthew Shawn Wilson (Bainbridge Island, Wash.), Anish Borkar (Cambridge, Wash.), John Michael Hayden (Mercer Island, Wash.) and Divya Ashok Kumar Jain (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for hosting block storage volumes in a hosted computing environment that are supported by multiple underlying elements and that are distributed among physical host d...