ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,670,164, issued on June 30, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Database management based on predicted retrieval of data" was invented by Ofir Ezrielev (Be'er Sheva, Israel), Jehuda Shemer (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Boris Shpilyuck (Ashdod, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for managing data are disclosed. Data may be stored in a database based on a likelihood that the data is to be read from the database. Data may be stored as a reduced-size representation of the data if the data is unlikely to be read from the database. Some requests for data may be associated with timeliness requirements. If dat...