ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,647,481, issued on June 2, was assigned to Bank of America Corp. (Charlotte, N.C.).

"System and method for information retrieval using dynamic sharding" was invented by Suryanarayana Adivi (Hyderabad, India), Pushkar Taneja (Hyderabad, India), Shailendra Singh (Thane West, India) and Venkata Ryali (Hyderabad, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A distributed data storage includes data stored in different data shards on nodes of the distributed data storage. A memory stores a dynamic heatmap indicative of a number of data requests for data stored on each of the nodes. A processor receives a request for retrieving the data stored in the di...