ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,349, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Data system with flush views" was invented by Norbert Paul Kusters (Redmond, Wash.), Nachiappan Arumugam (Seattle), Andre Podnozov (Kenmore, Wash.), Shobha Agrawal (Sammamish, Wash.), Shreyas Ramalingam (Seattle), Danny Wei (Seattle), David R. Richardson (Seattle), Marc John Brooker (Seattle), Christopher Nathan Watson (Seattle), John Luther Guthrie II (Seattle) and Ravi Nankani (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data storage system includes a head node and mass storage devices. The head node is configured to flush data stored in a storage of the head...