US Patent Issued to Apple on Sept. 29 for "Techniques for managing data" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,774, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).

"Techniques for managing data" was invented by Alexander D. Palmer (San Jose, Calif.), Joseph E. Meyer (Fremont, Calif.), Arjun Bhushan (San Francisco), Tristan K. Verniquet (Cupertino, Calif.) and Zhong Wang (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some techniques are described herein for tracking items across different devices. Such techniques synchronize a portion of each item while locally storing another portion. In some examples, the synchronization is performed via a conflict-free replicated data type (CRDT) and includes exchanging state vectors...