ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,143, issued on June 30, was assigned to Beijing OceanBase Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Methods and apparatuses for creating partition table, and data writing and reading methods and apparatuses for partition table" was invented by Jiawei Yang (Beijing), Zhenjiang Xie (Beijing), Yuzhong Zhao (Beijing), Jianyun Sun (Beijing), Hongqin Li (Beijing) and Jixiong Liu (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for partition table data writing includes obtaining a first data row to be written into a first partition table and a current partitioning rule indicating at least that the first partition table includes a...