ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,544, issued on March 24, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Using a durable future to resume execution of an operation after a process that includes the operation crashes" was invented by Reuben Wade Bond (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described herein that are capable of using a durable future to resume execution of an operation after a process that includes the operation crashes. A durable future, which is a proxy for a state of a workflow, is generated. An identifier that identifies the durable future is assigned, and a state of the durable future is stored in a s...