ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,685, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Distributed transaction management device and distributed transaction management method" was invented by Nobuyuki Yamamoto (Tokyo), Junpei Nishitani (Tokyo) and Hiroyuki Mochiduki (Yokohama City, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed transaction management device records a transaction settlement result log indicating a settlement result of a transaction in the distributed transaction system. When the distributed transaction management device receives a rollback processing completion notification from any one of multiple resource management units participating...