US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 25 for "Cloud-based architecture for processing distributed transactions" (Washington, Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,615, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Cloud-based architecture for processing distributed transactions" was invented by Alan Dale Halverson (Verona, Wis.), Ryan Daniel O'Connor (Kirkland, Wash.), Jose Aguilar Saborit (Bellevue, Wash.) and Raghunath Ramakrishnan (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for processing a distributed transaction are provided. A distributed execution statement including a plurality of tasks for executing a query and a table to be modified by the executed query is received. A first task is transmitted to a first backend node...