ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,446, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"Conditional master election in distributed databases" was invented by Akshat Vig (Seattle), Timothy Andrew Rath (Seattle), Stuart Henry Seelye Marshall (Seattle), Rande A. Blackman (Seattle), David Alan Lutz (Renton, Wash.), Jian Wang (Bellevue, Wash.), Jiandan Zheng (Bellevue, Wash.) and Janani Narayanan (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus for conditional master election in a distributed database are described. A plurality of replicas of a database object are stored by a distributed database service. Some types of operations corr...