ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,992, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Matrixx Software Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Transaction block processing for conditional commit databases" was invented by David Labuda (Hillsborough, Calif.), Deepak Bisht (Fremont, Calif.), Ian Marshall (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ming-Wen Sung Hwang (Saratoga, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database system includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive a transaction request comprising one or more transaction blocks in an order. The processor is configured to evaluate each transaction block of the one or more transaction blocks in the order by: determining in ...