ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,706, issued on April 7, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc (Seattle).

"Out-of-band schema tracking for change-data-capture logs" was invented by Kanishka Chaturvedi (New York), Andrew Willis Callahan (Seattle), Kunal Anil Lillaney (Seattle), Punit Rajgaria (Saratoga, Calif.) and Md Arif (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods for replicating transactional tables of a transactional database to a recipient system, such as an analytical database, and maintaining updates to those transactional table representations are disclosed. More particularly, change-data-capture items are generated by a transport engine, th...