ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,401, issued on April 21, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Techniques for replication-aware resource management and task management of file systems" was invented by Satish Kumar Kashi Visvanathan (San Jose, Calif.), Viggnesh Venugopal (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Vikram Singh Bisht (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for enabling replication-aware resource management and task management in a cloud infrastructure for cross-region replication. In some embodiments, each replication job is associated with a set of replication-related information. In certain embodiments, the r...