ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,367,187, issued on July 22, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).
"Distributed database locking" was invented by Atish Agrawal (Seattle) and Jameison Bear Martin (Oakland, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed relating to orchestrating locking between database nodes of a database system. A database node can determine that an execution of a database transaction at the database node involves acquiring a lock. The database node acquires, from a separate lease manager node, a lease object that permits the database node to create the lock for the database transaction. As a part of provisioning that lease ob...