ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,852, issued on May 12, was assigned to International Business Machines Corp. (Armonk, N.Y.).

"Database transaction isolation manager" was invented by Zachary Augustus Silverstein (Georgetown, Texas), Nadiya Kochura (Bolton, Mass.), Fang Lu (Billerica, Mass.) and Jonathan David Dunne (Dungarvan, Ireland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for dynamically determining a database (DB) isolation level of a database generates a transition matrix correlating a set of database transaction types with inter-arrival times, transaction service times, and isolation levels. A probability of success for combinations of trans...