ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,961, issued on July 15, was assigned to Beijing OceanBase Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Hybrid database implementations" was invented by Zhifeng Yang (Hangzhou, China), Quanqing Xu (Hangzhou, China) and Chuanhui Yang (Hangzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for implementing a hybrid database. In an example method, a system receives an indication to process a data request. The system is configured as a hybrid database to dynamically switch between a stand-alone mode and a distributed mode. When the indication i...