US Patent Issued to NetApp on Oct. 14 for "Any-local-quorum consistency for distributed databases replicated across multiple sites" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,587, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to NetApp Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Any-local-quorum consistency for distributed databases replicated across multiple sites" was invented by Blake Edwards (San Jose, Calif.), William Zhang (San Jose, Calif.), Lawrence Yu (San Jose, Calif.), David Ou (San Jose, Calif.) and Song Guen Yoon (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage application is disclosed herein that employs a method for managing read and write requests associated with a database distributed across multiple replicas in multiple data centers. The storage application may be implemented on one or more computing devices ...