Lockheed Martin Assigned Patent

Lockheed Martin Corporation, Bethesda, MD, has been assigned a patent (10,749,959) developed by Coleman, Shaun B., San Jose, CA, and Metzger, John Edward, Campbell, CA, for a “distributed storage management in a spaceborne or airborne environment.“

The abstract of the patent published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office states: ”Systems, methods, and software described herein provide enhancements for managing data storage in a spaceborne or airborne platform. In one implementation, an airborne device in an airborne platform may identify a request to store a data object in a storage pool provided by a plurality of airborne devices. The airborne device will further identify at least one airborne device for storing the data object from the plurality of airborne devices, and communicate the data object to the at least one airborne device.”

The patent application was filed on January 11, 2019 (16/245,504).