ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,611, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).

"Control method, and adapter" was invented by Toshiyuki Hasegawa (Tokyo) and Nobuyuki Yamamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A data store comprises a commit management map including an identifier of a distributed transaction. A control method executed by an adapter coupled to the data store includes: alternate processing of, temporarily storing the reception query, and causing a transaction on the data store side to execute the reception query; perpetuation processing of determining whether or not commit is possible using lock information and perpetuating the GXID ...