US Patent Issued to Ocient Holdings on March 31 for "Database system with replication based storage and redundancy coding based storage" (Illinois, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,516, issued on March 31, was assigned to Ocient Holdings LLC (Chicago).

"Database system with replication based storage and redundancy coding based storage" was invented by George Kondiles (Chicago), Jason Arnold (Chicago), S. Christopher Gladwin (Chicago), Joseph Jablonski (Chicago), Daniel Coombs (Chicago) and Andrew D. Baptist (Mt. Pleasant, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database system operates by: receiving a set of records for storage; applying a replication factor dictated by the required fault tolerance level to generate a set of replicas of the set of records; temporarily storing the set of replicas in a temporary i...