US Patent Issued to CISCO TECHNOLOGY on May 13 for "Techniques to provide a flexible witness in a distributed system" (California, Connecticut, Colorado Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,301,402, issued on May 13, was assigned to CISCO TECHNOLOGY INC. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Techniques to provide a flexible witness in a distributed system" was invented by Shweta Manohar Behere (Milpitas, Calif.), Dhanesh Joshi (Cupertino, Calif.), Jonathan S. Gorlin (Denver), Song Lu (San Jose, Calif.) and Sean Joseph Hagan (Wilton, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible witness service system architecture is provided that comprises one or more cluster sites each having at least two storage/compute nodes; at least one local external device associated with at least one of the one or more cluster sites, the at least one local externa...