US Patent Issued to HITACHI VANTARA on Nov. 4 for "Geographically dispersed hybrid cloud cluster" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,896, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to HITACHI VANTARA LLC (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Geographically dispersed hybrid cloud cluster" was invented by Sowmya Manjanatha (Westford, Mass.) and Nivedita Manjunath (Woburn, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some examples, a computing device of a plurality of computing devices at a first geographic location may divide data into a plurality of partitions. For example, at least two computing devices at the first geographic location may maintain a copy of the data of a first partition of the plurality of partitions and may exchange periodic heartbeat communications related to the first partit...