ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,536,150, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Confluent Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for low latency watches" was invented by Abhishek Arora (Mountain View, Calif.), Austin Cawley-Edwards (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Zdenek Tison (Omice, Czech Republic), Arjun Mukherji (San Jose, Calif.) and Arjun Satish (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods provide low-latency, ordered delivery of database change events to a watch client. In response to a database (DB) create, update, or delete (CUD) request, the system writes the request to a database. The database usually provides a change data capture stream o...