ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,376, issued on July 7, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Automatic recovery of nodes with corrupted logs in a consensus protocol" was invented by Saeed Abedigozalabad (San Mateo, Calif.), Thakur Vishwesh Singh (Bengaluru, India), Vijay Sridharan (Santa Clara, Calif.), Nilesh Choudhury (Redwood City, Calif.) and Mehrnoosh Raoufi (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The illustrative embodiments provide a consensus protocol with recovery of corrupted log entries within a log stored at a server within a cluster. Each server stores metadata comprising a last log index and a last log term of the cop...