ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,109, issued on March 17, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Techniques for maintaining data consistency during disaster recovery" was invented by Satish Kumar Kashi Visvanathan (San Jose, Calif.), Viggnesh Venugopal (Santa Clara, Calif.), Victor Vladimir Golosovker (Union City, Calif.) and Ravi Lingappa Shamanna (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are described for maintaining data consistency when failure events occur during file storage replications between file systems in different cloud infrastructure regions. In certain embodiments, two generation numbers (or different ...