ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,719, issued on July 22, was assigned to Red Hat Inc. (Raleigh, N.C.).

"Synchronizing a user's authentication state across multiple data centers using event messages" was invented by Alexander Schwartz (Hofheim am Taunus, Germany), Stefan Guilhen (Sao Paulo) and Martin Kanis (Brno, Czech Republic).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for synchronizing the authentication state of a user across data centers using event messages are provided herein. In one example, a system can determine a first change in the authentication state, update a first data structure representing the authentication state in a first data center based on the ...