ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,327, issued on June 3, was assigned to DASSAULT SYSTEMES SE (Velizy Villacoublay, France).

"Index splitting in distributed databases" was invented by Yevgeniy Dashevsky (Bedford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a distributed database, many nodes can store copies, or instances, of the same record. If the record is split on one node, it should be split on the other nodes to maintain consistency, concurrency, and correctness of the data in the distributed database. In some distributed databases, the records are locked during the update process to ensure data integrity. Unfortunately, locking the records can increase latency, espe...