ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,242, issued on May 27, was assigned to Elastic Flash Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Distributed data storage and analytics system" was invented by Darshan Bharatkumar Rawal (Fremont, Calif.), Naoki Iwakami (Redwood City, Calif.), Kalyan Seshu (Karnataka, India) and Prasanta Sahoo (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some implementations, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a state update command. The method further includes, in response to the state update command, sending a command to perform a state update in a first server of a plurality of servers and queueing incoming requests for access to the plurality ...