ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,017, issued on July 15, was assigned to CrowdStrike Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Nodal redundancy storage decisions" was invented by Stig Rohde Dossing (Aarhus, Denmark) and Kenn Daniel (Aarhus, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Nodal redundancy storage decisions efficiently distribute redundant copies of electronic data. A cloud computing network establishes a policy that governs how and where the redundant copies are stored within the cloud computing network (such as by region, zone, and cluster targets). Each cloud computing node is then delegated, with autonomy, to manage a redundant copy to achieve the policy established by t...