US Patent Issued to Scale Computing on Sept. 1 for "Recovery after data loss in a reliable distributed computing system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,682, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Scale Computing Inc. (Austin, Texas).

"Recovery after data loss in a reliable distributed computing system" was invented by Nate Hardt (San Carlos, Calif.), Scott Loughmiller (San Francisco) and Philip White (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Real system devices (RSD's) emulate virtual system devices (VSD's); system elements can use RSD's and manipulate VSD's, while users can only use VSD's. Identifying when RSD's have erroneous data. Providing a mapping of RSD's to VSD's, to recover a maximum set of VSD's. Providing a mapping of VSD's to RSD's, to recover a specified most valua...