ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,603, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to GONG.io Ltd. (Ramat Gan, Israel).
"Techniques for distributed locks" was invented by Zohar Shay (Even Yehuda, Israel) and Golan Levy (Ramat Gan, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Executing distributed locks in a system having resources adapted to be accessible by processes that are being executed, the method being executed by a locking system logically independent of the processes, by: receiving from a process a lock request including a name of a resource to place a lock on; determining a shard key based on the lock name and a prefix value, wherein the locking system includes a set of datab...