ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,366, issued on April 14, was assigned to Beijing OceanBase Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Distributed table lock application methods, apparatuses, storage media, and electronic devices" was invented by Fanyu Kong (Beijing), Xiaofei Cui (Beijing), Fusheng Han (Beijing) and Ting Cao (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This specification discloses example distributed table lock application methods and apparatuses, storage media, and electronic devices. In an example method, a master node receives a data processing request and determines a data table that to-be-processed data corresponding to the data processing request are located...