ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,619,595, issued on May 5, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).

"Optimistically concurrent view loading" was invented by Yannis Papakonstantinou (La Jolla, Calif.), Tate A. Certain (Seattle), Allan Henry Vermeulen (Parksville, Canada) and Christopher Richard Jacques de Kadt (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A database management system receives a request to execute a long-running transaction. The database management system sub-divides the transaction into a plurality of sub-transactions. The transaction is initiated using optimistic locking. The database management system attempts to execute and validate the sub-transac...