US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on Nov. 4 for "Commit time logging for time-based multi-version concurrency control" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,907, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Commit time logging for time-based multi-version concurrency control" was invented by Anand Kumar Thakur (Snohomish, Wash.), Jin Chen (Toronto), Gaurav Kumar Gupta (Waterloo, Canada) and David Charles Wein (Shoreline, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Commit time logging is performed as part of implementing time-based Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC). A query engine may determine a commit time for a database transaction is committed to a database by applying MVCC to select different versions of data in the database according to transaction commit ti...