ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,906, issued on March 25, was assigned to LENOVO GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY (UNITED STATES) INC. (Morrisville, N.C.).

"Restriction-compliant data replication" was invented by William L Holroyd (Holly Springs, N.C.), Rodrigo Felix De Almeida (Raleigh, N.C.), Prabhat Alok Tyagi (Cary, N.C.) and Alfredo Zugasti (Cary, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Restriction-compliant data replication including receiving a request to replicate a dataset of a database that is stored in a cloud-based data warehouse at a first region of a plurality of geographic regions to a second region of the plurality of geographic regions, wherein the second region is s...