US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Persistent object storage with sequential updates" (American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,709, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Persistent object storage with sequential updates" was invented by Thomas Grant Slatton (Seattle), Seth W. Markle (Seattle), James Alexander Bornholt (Austin, Texas), Rajeev Joshi (La Canada Flintridge, Calif.) and Andrew Kent Warfield (Vancouver, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An object storage data store may be implemented using storage devices providing multiple extents, where individual ones of the extents include multiple independently addressable, contiguous blocks and where updating an extent is performed by updating the respective independently ...