ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,973, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to STRIPE INC. (South San Francisco, Calif.).
"Cross service lock handling" was invented by Tushar Dhoot (Seattle), Dusty Regan Burwell (Chicago) and David Vasilevsky (Montreal).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and system for performing lock handling across multiple servers. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving, by a second server, a first request of a service from a first server, the first request including first metadata which includes lock information of a lock held by the first server. The method comprises extracting the lock information from the first metadata and storing the...