ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,360, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Transaction log service with local log replicas" was invented by Zhengguo Sun (Redmond, Wash.), Girish Mittur Venkataramanappa (Redmond, Wash.), Batuhan Tasdoven (Redmond, Wash.) and Zhiyou Liu (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application relates to database management in a cloud environment. A compute service generates a transaction log for database actions. The compute service writes at least a first portion of the transaction log to a log replica service. The log replica service replicates at least the first portion o...