ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,863, issued on May 12, was assigned to DBOS Inc. (Boston).

"Database-centric operating system for durable workflow" was invented by Qian Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Peter Kraft (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Henri Maxime Demoulin (Campbell, Calif.), Charles Bear (Hudson, Mass.), Harold Pierson III (Redmond, Wash.), Manoj Khangaonkar (Pleasanton, Calif.), Alexandre Poliakov (Boston), Leander Neiss (East Haddam, Conn.), Mike Stonebraker (Boston) and Michael Coden (Bronx, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An operating system platform built on a transactional datastore is disclosed. The platform comprises a transactional datastore configured to store...