US Patent Issued to Neo4j Sweden on Oct. 7 for "Database system with transactional commit protocol based on safe conjunction of majorities" (Swedish, British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,436,944, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Neo4j Sweden AB (San Mateo, Calif.).

"Database system with transactional commit protocol based on safe conjunction of majorities" was invented by Mats Tobias Lindaaker (Malmo, Sweden) and James Webber (Guildford, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database system with a transactional commit protocol based on a safe conjunction of majorities is disclosed. In various embodiments, a directed acyclic graph comprises, for each of a plurality of transactions, data identifying the transaction, data indicating prior transaction(s) on which the transaction depends, and data indicating whether ...