ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,180, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Twilio Inc. (San Francisco).

"Index-based cache for key-value storage" was invented by Christopher O'Hara (Buderim, Australia) and Achille Roussel (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments include systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for managing data using persistent storage. Consistent with these embodiments, a method includes receiving a write request that includes a value and a key; processing the write request, the processing of the write request including generating a message that includes the value; transmitting the message to an external s...