ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,607, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Couchbase Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Distributed transaction execution in distributed databases" was invented by Graham Timothy Pople (Manchester, Great Britain), Brett Phillip James Lawson (Surrey, Canada), Matthew William Ingenthron (Huntington Beach, Calif.), David John Finlay (Mountain View, Calif.), Shivani Gupta (Irvine, Calif.), John Sae Liang (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Stephen Ching-Sing Yen (Atherton, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Client systems of a distributed database system execute transactions on data stored within the distributed database system. The client systems communica...