ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,577, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (New York).
"Database record bit" was invented by Shuo Li (Beijing), Xiaobo Wang (Beijing), Sheng Yan Sun (Beijing), Jia Tian Zhong (Beijing) and Xing Xing Shen (Beijing).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes receiving, by a computing device, a first transaction from a user device for a first version of a database record; generating, by the computing device, a bit for the database record; receiving, by the computing device, a second transaction from a second user device for a second version of the database record; locking, by the computing device,...