ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,003, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Synchronous replication of high throughput streaming data" was invented by Pavan Edara (Mountain View, Calif.) and Jonathan Forbes (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for synchronous replication of stream data includes receiving a stream of data blocks for storage at a first storage location associated with a first geographical region and at a second storage location associated with a second geographical region. The method also includes synchronously writing the stream of data blocks to the first storage location and to the second stor...