ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,384, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Generating globally coherent timestamps" was invented by Peter Hochschild (New York), Alexander Lloyd (New York), Wilson Cheng-Yi Hsieh (Syosset, N.Y.), Robert Edman Felderman (Portola Valley, Calif.) and Michael James Boyer Epstein (Brooklyn, N.Y.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology proposes techniques for generating globally coherent timestamps. This technology may allow distributed systems to causally order transactions without incurring various types of communication delays inherent in explicit synchronization. By globally deploying a n...