US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on March 31 for "Vector lifecycle management in distributed storage systems" (British, American, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,560, issued on March 31, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Vector lifecycle management in distributed storage systems" was invented by Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu (Stratford-upon-Avon, Great Britain), Andrew Kutsy (London), Jonathan S. Katz (New York), Mrithyunjaya Kumar Annapragada (Concord, Mass.), Marc Brooker (Seattle), Andrew Kent Warfield (Vancouver, Canada) and Yu-Ju Huang (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for receiving a vector to be inserted into a set of vectors, wherein the set of vectors is stored as a plurality of leaf objects of a distributed proximit...