ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,639,301, issued on May 26, was assigned to Beijing Volcano Engine Technology Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Data reading method and device for database, and storage medium" was invented by Jianhua Cao (Beijing), Heng Chen (Beijing), Rui Shi (Beijing) and Jianjun Chen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a data reading method and device for a database and storage medium, which includes: receiving a query condition for a Value column in an LSM-Tree database; querying first alternative data with Value meeting the query condition from the LSM-Tree database; constructing a right table according to Key of the first alte...