ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,690, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Salesforce Inc. (San Francisco).

"Mechanisms for accessing database records locally" was invented by Benjamin Busjaeger (San Carlos, Calif.), Suhas Dantkale (Cupertino, Calif.) and Michael Abebe (Waterloo, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are disclosed that pertain to a database system having a log owner and log tailers. The log owner maintains a transaction log and the log tailers replay the transaction log. A log tailer may receive a set of requests to perform a database transaction that involves a write operation to write a record and a subsequent read operation to read that ...