ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,399, issued on July 29, was assigned to UMBRA TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (UK) (Road Town, British Virgin Islands).

"Data beacon pulser(s) powered by information slingshot" was invented by Joseph E. Rubenstein (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for providing data beacons are disclosed. In some embodiments the system can include a first node and a second node. Each node includes a read queue, a write queue and a parallel file system. Data is written from the write queue on the first node to the parallel file system on the second node and from the write queue on the second node to the parallel file system on the first no...