US Patent Issued to Google on March 24 for "Synchronous block level replication across availability zones" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,673, issued on March 24, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Synchronous block level replication across availability zones" was invented by Andrey Arkharov (Kirkland, Wash.), Andrei Burago (Kirkland, Wash.), Jonathan Forbes (Bellevue, Wash.), Anton Sukhanov (Bellevue, Wash.) and Fabricio Voznika (Kenmore, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A replicated block storage service provides durable and high performance network-attached storage replicated in two or more zones of a single region, and remains available despite a single zone failure. A probe file is generated to determine a health state of a replicated disk. ...