US Patent Issued to Wealthfront on June 24 for "Updating transactions in a distributed database with a leader system and follower system" (Tennessee, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,872, issued on June 24, was assigned to Wealthfront Corp. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Updating transactions in a distributed database with a leader system and follower system" was invented by Austin Douglas McKee (Greeneville, Tenn.) and Julien Daniel Wetterwald (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A follower system and a leader system store records for a plurality of users. Each of the follower system and the leader system stores at least a record for a user. Each of the follower system and the leader system stores a private log and a public log. The public log is periodically synchronized across the follower system and the l...