ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,348, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Scalable low-loss disaster recovery for data stores" was invented by Virendra Marathe (Nashua, N.H.), Alex Kogan (Needham, Mass.) and Ahmed Alquraan (Ontario, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed to improve disaster recovery by implementing a scalable low-loss disaster recovery for a data store. The disaster recovery system enables disaster recovery for a linearizable (e.g., externally consistent) distributed data store. The disaster recovery system also provides for a small lag on the backup site relative ...