US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 8 for "Synchronous replication in a distributed storage environment" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,437, issued on July 8, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Synchronous replication in a distributed storage environment" was invented by Bradley Gene Calder (Bellevue, Wash.), Niranjan Nilakantan (Redmond, Wash.), Shashwat Srivastav (Seattle), Jiesheng Wu (Redmond, Wash.), Abdul Rafay Abbasi (Redmond, Wash.), Shane Mainali (Duvall, Wash.) and Padmanabha Chakravarthy Uddaraju (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention relate to synchronously replicating data in a distributed computing environment. To achieve synchronous replication both an eventual consistency ...