ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,106, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Regatta Data Ltd. (Bet Hanania, Israel).

"Concurrency control protocol for local database systems" was invented by Erez Webman (Petach Tikva, Israel) and Irit Yadin-Lempel (Caesarea, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database system implementing a concurrency control protocol is provided. The database system includes a node connected through a network to a client; the node comprises: a storage for storing a plurality of data cells; one or more processors; and a memory, the memory containing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, configure the node to: receive at l...