US Patent Issued to Micron Technology on July 8 for "Lock release management associated with a key-value database system" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,360, issued on July 8, was assigned to Micron Technology Inc. (Boise, Idaho).

"Lock release management associated with a key-value database system" was invented by Gregory Alan Becker (Austin, Texas), Neelima Premsankar (Austin, Texas) and David Boles (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A global lock is used to access a first set of data structures. An active transaction having a transaction start identifier is identified as a globally oldest active transaction associated with the first set of data structures. A first marker value of a first data structure of a second set of data structures is compared to the transaction sta...