US Patent Issued to Google on May 27 for "Systems and methods for increasing database access concurrency" (New York, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,231, issued on May 27, was assigned to Google Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for increasing database access concurrency" was invented by Wilson Cheng-Yi Hsieh (Syosset, N.Y.), Alexander Lloyd (New York) and Eric Hugh Veach (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for reading and writing data from a database table. In one aspect, a method includes: (1) initiating a read transaction to read from a first non-key column of a row in the database table, the database table having a plurality of rows, each row comprising a primary key an...