ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,595, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Handling distributed transactions" was invented by George Mathew (Belmont, Calif.) and Shashikanth Lakshmikantha (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Cluster nodes are allowed to start transactions involving modifications to multiple entities by locking a current entity for a current modification associated with a transaction, but not locking a subsequent entity for a subsequent modification associated with the same transaction. Undo log records are generated to allow the modifications to be rolled back. When a lock being held by a first node f...