US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on Feb. 18 for "Multi-shard transactions in a byzantine computing environment" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,581, issued on Feb. 18, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Multi-shard transactions in a byzantine computing environment" was invented by Mohammad Sadoghi Hamedani (Davis, Calif.), Jelle Antonius Johannes Hellings (Hamilton, Canada), Suyash Gupta (Fremont, Calif.) and Sajjad Rahnama (Davis, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a Byzantine computing environment in which a database is sharded or partitioned among multiple clusters of computing nodes, consensus for and execution of data transactions (e.g., transactions that require and/or affect data of one or more shards) are achieved in...