ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,468, issued on May 19, was assigned to Accumulus Synergy Inc. (Burlingame, Calif.).

"Method and system for eventually consistent distributed data sharing" was invented by Michael Vess (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A platform distributes data between multiple tenants by assigning each tenant a data storage environment that is unique to that tenant. A source tenant may offer destination tenants access to a source data set. Any destination tenant who accepts the offer will get access to the source data set via the copy of the source data set that is replicated to the destination tenant's data storage. The replicating uses an ...