ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,469, issued on May 19, was assigned to CLOUDFLARE INC. (San Francisco).
"Sequential consistency across a distributed cloud computing network" was invented by Justin Mazzola Paluska (Cambridge, Mass.), Joshua Tyler Howard (Atlanta), Matthew Silverlock (New York City, N.Y.), Kenton Taylor Varda (Austin, Texas) and Vy Nuthuy Ton (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sequential consistency across a distributed cloud computing network is described. A database includes a primary database and multiple read replica databases. Write queries are transmitted to the primary database, and commit tokens are provided to the read replica databases...