ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,287,780, issued on April 29, was assigned to GRAVIC INC. (Malvern, Pa.).

"Apparatus, method, and computer program product for reducing commit latency of pending transactions" was invented by Paul J. Holenstein (Downingtown, Pa.), Bruce D. Holenstein (Media, Pa.) and John R. Hoffmann (Kennett Square, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Commit latency is reduced for pending transactions. The transactions are replicated from a source database to a target database by a replication engine. The pending transaction is incomplete in either the source or the target database. A transaction pattern table is provided that includes a plurality of recor...