ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,705,229, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to HUAWEI CLOUD COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES Co. LTD. (Gui Zhou, China).

"Systems and methods for global consistency in distributed shared-data databases" was invented by Alexandre Depoutovitch (Kanata, Canada), Chong Chen (Kanata, Canada) and Jack Hon Wai Ng (Kanata, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatus, systems, and methods for global consistency in distributed shared-data databases may be provided. According to an aspect a method may be provided for ensuring strong consistency in data retrieval. The method includes receiving, by a receiving node of a database, a query for a value of a data...