ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,794, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Real-time transactionally consistent change notifications" was invented by Alfred Fuller (San Carlos, Calif.), Vijay Kumar (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Rainer Hessmer (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method includes executing an initial instance of a change log process for a distributed system, each instance of the change log process configured to store a transaction history of transactions executed on the distributed system. The method also includes receiving transaction requests for executing corresponding transactions on the distributed syst...