US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Feb. 3 for "Efficient data synchronization and segregation using virtualized and modular representations" (California, Massachusetts, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,536, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Efficient data synchronization and segregation using virtualized and modular representations" was invented by Armon Dadgar (San Francisco), Jeffrey A. Mitchell (Newton, Mass.), Brian M. Kassouf (San Francisco) and Christopher S. Hoffman (Hockessin, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention involve composing synchronization structures that enable increased synchronization control. A virtual synchronization structure enables synchronization using structure traversal without replicating the full data set. This resu...