US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Sept. 23 for "Providing executing programs with access to stored block data of others" (South African, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,192, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Providing executing programs with access to stored block data of others" was invented by Peter N. DeSantis (Cape Town, South Africa), Atle Normann Jorgensen (Cape Town, South Africa), Matthew S. Garman (Seattle), Tate Andrew Certain (Seattle) and Roland Paterson-Jones (Cape Town, South Africa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for managing access of executing programs to non-local block data storage. In some situations, a block data storage service uses multiple server storage systems to reliably store copies of network-accessible bloc...