US Patent Issued to DASSAULT SYSTEMES on Dec. 9 for "Backup and restore in a distributed database utilizing consistent database snapshots" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,527, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to DASSAULT SYSTEMES SE (Velizy Villacoublay, France).

"Backup and restore in a distributed database utilizing consistent database snapshots" was invented by Ross R. Shaull (Waltham, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed for backup and restore in a distributed database utilizing consistent database snapshots. In particular, a distributed database system configured in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a plurality of interconnected database nodes that collectively define a database having no single point of failure and that can be "viewed" by a SQ...