ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,710, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to MongoDB Inc. (New York).

"Systems and methods for tiered synchronization" was invented by Ian Ward (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Michael Patrick O'Brien (New York), Rushil Kumar (Forest Hills, N.Y.), Sudarshan Muralidhar (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Tyler Kaye (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are tiered synchronization systems and methods suitable for use in non-relational database systems distributed across multiple remote locations, which may provide access to some or all functionality of a cloud-tier server at a mid-tier server. For example, the mid-tier server may be locally accessible (...