ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,798, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Rapid7 Inc. (Boston).

"Transaction conflict resolution in a file-system-backed database system" was invented by Austin Lee (Burbank, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a transactional database system are described to implement transaction processing over database objects stored in a strongly consistent object storage system. When a transaction is initiated, the system makes a private copy of data objects that are used by the transaction. Reads and writes of the transaction will be performed on the private copy. When the transaction is to be committed, the system verifies that ...