ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,579,108, issued on March 17, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Synchronous database data persistence" was invented by Kevin R McGehee (Shoreline, Wash.), Stefan Mueller (Vancouver, Canada), Itay Maoz (Bellevue, Wash.), Jean Maurice Guy Guyader (Vancouver, Canada) and Aseem Paul Singh Cheema (Mercer Island, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database system writes data to a volatile memory and generates metadata associated with the data written to the volatile memory. The database system stores a message usable to confirm that the data was written in the volatile memory and links the metadata to the message. A data...