ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,530,372, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Asynchronous cross-region block volume replication" was invented by Venkata Harish Mallipeddi (Bellevue, Wash.), Travis John Portz (Seatlle, Wash.), Jeppe Oskar Meyer Larsen (Sammamish, Wash.) and Mario Tayah (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for cross-region replication of block volume data. The techniques include a method wherein a computer system implements operations including creating a first snapshot of a block volume at a first geographic region and at a first logical time, the block volume including a pl...