ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,895, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to STRIPE INC. (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for streamlined topology updates for distributed data storage" was invented by Yufei Hu (Foster City, Calif.), Hemal Mukeshkumar Shah (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Alexandre Desjardins (Verdun, Canada), Shashi Madappa (Campbell, Calif.), David Albertson (Bellevue, Wash.) and Karan Vohra (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for updating a topology on router nodes in a distributed storage system are described. The method can include obtaining, by a first service of a control plane service, topology information fr...