ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,804, issued on May 20, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Techniques for replication checkpointing during disaster recovery" was invented by Satish Kumar Kashi Visvanathan (San Jose, Calif.), Viggnesh Venugopal (Santa Clara, Calif.), Victor Vladimir Golosovker (Union City, Calif.) and Ravi Lingappa Shamanna (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for checkpointing multiple key ranges in parallel and concurrently during file storage replications between file systems in different cloud infrastructure regions. In certain embodiments, multiple range threads processing m...