US Patent Issued to Cockroach Labs on Oct. 14 for "Methods and systems for transactional schema changes" (New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,588, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Cockroach Labs Inc. (New York).

"Methods and systems for transactional schema changes" was invented by Andrew J Werner (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Xue Zhang (Astoria, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for executing transactional schema changes at a database are provided. The method includes receiving, at a gateway node of a cluster of database nodes, a statement corresponding to a schema of a database stored by the cluster, wherein a parent transaction comprises the statement, the statement comprises a schema change operation to modify the schema, and a first version of one or mo...