ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,841, issued on March 31, was assigned to Oracle International Corp. (Redwood Shores, Calif.).

"Active-active replication in blockchain tables with primary key constraints" was invented by Sachin Vijakumar Sonawane (Foster City, Calif.), Mahesh Baburao Girkar (Los Altos, Calif.), Mahesh Subramaniam (Foster City, Calif.), Aurosish Mishra (Foster City, Calif.), Diego Ramirez (Guadalajara, Mexico) and Lewis Kaplan (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are various approaches for supporting active-active replication in a blockchain table having a primary key constraint. A blockchain database object may be stored in ...