ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,941, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Confluent Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Data distribution service" was invented by Abhishek Arora (Mountain View, Calif.), Arjun Satish (Los Gatos, Calif.), Jonathan Paul Rosenberg (Redmond, Wash.), Arjun Mukherji (San Jose, Calif.) and Yuanchao Yu (Shawnee, Kan.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A cross-region data distribution service enables eventually consistent replication of data objects between geographical regions while maintaining data ordering guarantees. For data replication between two regions, the system leverages a data stream-based replication model where destination region leverages...