US Patent Issued to Palantir Technologies on Oct. 21 for "Systems and methods for consistent backup of distributed, transactional databases" (British Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,450,124, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Palantir Technologies Inc. (Denver).

"Systems and methods for consistent backup of distributed, transactional databases" was invented by James Baker (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed, transactional database uses timestamps, such as logical clock values, for entry versioning and transaction management in the database. To write to the database, a service requests a timestamp to be inserted into the database with a new version of data. During a backup procedure, a cleanup process is paused, issuing new timestamps is paused, and a backup timestamp is generated, which results in a...