US Patent Issued to International Business Machines on Nov. 25 for "Shard hashing for database objects within a distributed database" (Argentinean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,703, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Shard hashing for database objects within a distributed database" was invented by Jeronimo Irazabal (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example operation may include one or more of storing an object across a plurality of shards of a database, generating a sequence of local hash values from the plurality of shards based on respective object content stored locally within the plurality of shards, converting the sequence of local hash values from the plurality of shards into a global hash value for the database, and stori...