ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,092, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Ensuring globally consistent transactions" was invented by Wilson Cheng-Yi Hsieh (Syosset, N.Y.), Alexander Lloyd (New York), Peter Hochschild (New York), Michael James Boyer Epstein (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Sean Quinlan (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present technology proposes techniques for ensuring globally consistent transactions. This technology may allow distributed systems to ensure the causal order of read and write transactions across different partitions of a distributed database. By assigning causally generated timestamps to the ...