ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,353, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to RingCentral Inc. (Belmont, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for in order cross cluster replication of encrypted messages" was invented by David Livshits (Modiin-Maccabim-Reut, Israel), Lev Rosenblit (Shoham, Israel), Yossi Alufer (Holon, Israel) and Dmitrii Bukreev (Petah Tikva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-cluster environment improves the availability and performance of encryption messaging services by providing an in-order cross cluster replication of encryption messages. A first cluster and a second cluster of the multi-cluster environment receive messages with a session identi...