ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,725, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Procore Technologies Inc. (Carpinteria, Calif.).

"Data distribution and access within a multi-zone computing platform" was invented by Anuj Rohatgi (Austin, Texas), Manish Jain (Los Angeles) and Terrence Cole (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing system that defines a first zone of a multi-zone computing platform is configured to (1) receive a request to access at least one given data object that is stored within the multi-zone computing platform, (2) obtain, from a global representation of available data that is stored within the multi-zone computing platform, a rou...