ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,423,294, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Methods and systems of verifying data synchronized to multiple data stores" was invented by Shi Pu (Kirkland, Wash.), Shruti Kasetty (Bellevue, Wash.), Anish Agarwal (Bothell, Wash.), Hao Xie (Redmond, Wash.), Abhishek Kadian (Jersey City, N.J.), Umme Salma Shabbir Gadriwala (Seattle) and Carly Larsson (Issaquah, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data verification agent serves to verify data that is being redundantly stored in both a first data store and a second data store. The data verification agent compares corresponding objects i...