ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,101, issued on May 26, was assigned to EVERPURE INC. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Transaction interlocks for a distributed system" was invented by John Hayes (Mountain View, Calif.), Brian Gold (Los Altos, Calif.), Shantanu Gupta (Santa Clara, Calif.), Robert Lee (Pebble Beach, Calif.) and Hari Kannan (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for a transactional commit in a storage unit is provided. The method includes receiving a logical record from a storage node into a transaction engine of a storage unit of the storage node and writing the logical record into a data structure of the transaction engine. The method inclu...