ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,638, issued on May 12, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc (Seattle).

"Capacity-based replication management across different data set distributions" was invented by Sagar Mundra (San Jose, Calif.), Carlos Humberto Hasan Valdovino (Seattle), Sharatkumar Nagesh Kuppahally (Issaquah, Wash.), Somasundaram Perianayagam (Seattle) and Vinit Vikram Shah (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An update performed to a first data set may be replicated to a second data set, where the first and second data sets may be organized according to different schemas. The replication of the update may comprise determining that a set-wide replication ...