US Patent Issued to Wealthfront on March 4 for "Synchronizing across multiple database systems for updating records" (Tennessee, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,512, issued on March 4, was assigned to Wealthfront Corp. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Synchronizing across multiple database systems for updating records" 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 leader system. The pri...