US Patent Issued to Oracle International on July 29 for "Supporting two phase commit protocol in blockchain system" (Indian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,424, issued on July 29, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Supporting two phase commit protocol in blockchain system" was invented by Carlo Innocenti (Wakefield, Mass.), Sharthak Mishra (Karnataka, India) and Vignesh Subramanian (Karnataka, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A blockchain system is enabled to participate in distributed transactions that uses a two-phase commit protocol ("2PC"). In a 2PC, a computer system, such as a DBMS or blockchain system, commits a transaction that changes data (e.g. database, world state) using two phases. To participate in a distributed transaction using 2PC,...