ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,999, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Asynchronously determining relational data integrity using cryptographic data structures" was invented by Panagiotis Antonopoulos (Redmond, Wash.), Jakub J. Szymaszek (Issaquah, Wash.), Raghav Kaushik (Kirkland, Wash.) and Conor J. Cunningham (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for asynchronously determining relational data integrity using cryptographic data structures are performed by systems and devices. Changes in current tables of relational databases are reflected in associated history tables. Cryptographic hybrid bloc...