US Patent Issued to Cockroach Labs on Feb. 24 for "Multi-region database systems and methods" (Canadian, American, Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,342, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Cockroach Labs Inc. (New York).

"Multi-region database systems and methods" was invented by Nathan J. VanBenschoten (New York), Andrew Scott Woods (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Adam J. Storm (Toronto), Arul Ajmani (Toronto), Richard M. Loveland (Gardiner, N.Y.), Andrei Matei (Brooklyn, N.Y.), Aayush Jaiprakash Shah (Toronto), Rebecca Yale Taft (Chicago) and Oliver Tan (Alexandria, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for multi-region database configuration in a distributed computing system are disclosed. A database comprising at least three voting replicas of a partition of a table ...