ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,900, issued on March 4, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Event synchronization in a clustered environment using a distributed timer" was invented by Kunal Anand Ekawde (Bengaluru, India), Abhay Balappanavar (Gadag, India), Michael Anthony Brown (McKinney, Texas), Ronald Mark Parker (Manchester, Mass.), Anupama Raghavan (Acton, Mass.), Dhananjaya Eadala (Acton, Mass.), Rama Krishna Prasad Mangalaparthi (Hyderabad, India) and Mark Gordon Libby (Groton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for providing method for providing an event timer for event synchronization across Kube...