ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,769,724, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Stripe LLC (South San Francisco, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for zero downtime topology updates for distributed data storage" was invented by Hemal Shah (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shashi Madappa (Campbell, Calif.) and Karan Vohra (Sammamish, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for updating data router nodes in a distributed storage system are described. The method can include querying, by a first database agent of a database node, a cache data store for health status metrics of the cache data store. The method can also include storing, by the first database agent of the data...