US Patent Issued to Amazon Technologies on June 23 for "Asynchronous data set updates for accessing database partitions" (Washington, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,147, issued on June 23, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Asynchronous data set updates for accessing database partitions" was invented by James Alexander Morle (Dripping Springs, Texas), Marc Brooker (Seattle) and Matthys Strydom (Kirkland, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An update to a data set is received at a distributed database system. The data set is stored with or cached for accessing different partitions of a database. A new version identifier of the data set is written to indicate the update to the data set using a corresponding log record written to respective update logs of the different partitions...