ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,016, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Holdings Corp. (Tokyo).

"Synchronized data management in a distributed computing environment using microservice architecture" was invented by Zachary McCain Darden (New Hill, N.C.), Jonathan Waite (Cary, N.C.), Andrew Wesley Norris (Durham, N.C.) and Valentin Mourzenok (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of synchronizing data across an enterprise system including enterprise servers on an enterprise level and including store locations at a store level including edge devices operatively coupled to the enterprise servers can be provided by pro...