ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,814, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Database recovery of independently replicated database shards" was invented by Baljit Vikas (Bengaluru, India) and Amit Krishnan (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Database recovery of independently replicated shards may be performed. A recovery event to make a mirror location of shards of a database that is replicated independently and asynchronously from a primary location of the database is detected. To make the mirror location a new read-write location of the database according to the detected recovery event, a recovery point may be iden...