US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 21 for "Method and system for lock after qualification for update queries" (Canadian, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,362, issued on April 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Method and system for lock after qualification for update queries" was invented by Chaitanya Sreenivas Ravella (Surrey, Canada), Hanumantha Rao Kodavalla (Sammamish, Wash.), Prashanth Purnananda (Bellevue, Wash.), Craig Steven Freedman (Sammamish, Wash.) and Vasileios Papadimos (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Example aspects include techniques for anomaly detection via sparse judgmental samples. These techniques may include generating a qualified timestamp corresponding to execution of a first operation of a first transaction over ...