US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 12 for "Transactional database layer above a distributed key/value store" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,816, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Transactional database layer above a distributed key/value store" was invented by Spencer Alan Bishop (Kirkland, Wash.) and Jason Daniel Shay (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage system for transactional data storage includes a key/value store comprising a first plurality of rows and a second plurality of rows, each of the first plurality of rows including a first key associated with a respective row of a database and a transaction state associated with the respective row, and each of the second plurality of rows including a sec...