ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,657,207, issued on June 16.

"Methods and systems for replicated state machine transition" was invented by Zhenfeng He (Westfield, N.J.) and Tomislav Grospic (Zagreb, Croatia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure presents methods and architectures that allow non-deterministic concurrent executions that can potentially interleave with other executions and replays in a SMR system. The current disclosure further discloses architectures and methods that executes, validates (replay) then merges transactions without the need to first order the transactions therefore achieves higher throughput. Another aspect of the invention inv...