ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,262, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Concurrent and non-blocking object deletion for cross-region replications" was invented by Satish Kumar Kashi Visvanathan (San Jose, Calif.), Ravi Lingappa Shamanna (Milpitas, Calif.) and Vikram Singh Bisht (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for enabling concurrent and non-blocking replication object deletion during cross-region replications. In some embodiments, in a target file system, a target replication pipeline as part of a cross-region replication, and a deletion pipeline operate in parallel. The deletion...