ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,637, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to Scalar Inc. (Tokyo).

"Data management system" was invented by Hiroyuki Yamada (Kamakura, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data management system receives a status update request in which a target is specified and executes status update processing of updating a status of the target specified in the status update request. The status update processing includes transaction processing that is processing of updating first information and second information in an ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, Durability) transactional manner. The first information is a first object group (one or more fi...