US Patent Issued on Feb. 3 for "Methods and apparatuses for improving the utilization of state machines in a distributed system" (California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,541,502, issued on Feb. 3.

"Methods and apparatuses for improving the utilization of state machines in a distributed system" was invented by Evan Schnell (North Oaks, Minn.), Albert Hives (Oakland, Calif.), Divya Kosaraju (Dublin, Calif.) and Chris Patterson (Oakland, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments are disclosed for improving throughput in a distributed transaction processing system. In the context of a method, an example embodiment includes receiving information regarding a change in state of a particular transaction recorded by the distributed transaction processing system. This example embodiment of the method furthe...