US Patent Issued to Google on Nov. 11 for "Time reservations for ensuring consistent reads in a distributed database without logging" (New York, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,468,667, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Time reservations for ensuring consistent reads in a distributed database without logging" was invented by Wilson Cheng-Yi Hsieh (Syosset, N.Y.), Eric Hugh Veach (Bellevue, Wash.), Michael James Boyer Epstein (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Alexander Lloyd (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The subject matter described herein provides techniques to ensure that queries of a distributed database observe a consistent read of the database without locking or logging. In this regard, next-write timestamps uniquely identify a set of write transactions whose updates can ...