ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,855, issued on May 12, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Bulk insertion of data into log-structured merge tree" was invented by Ziv Dor (Nes Ziona, Israel), Sabina Rachev (Herzliya, Israel), Yosef Shatsky (Karnei Shomron, Israel) and Xiaomei Liu (Southborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques are provided for managing LSM tree structures and enabling bulk insertion of data into LSM tree structures. An exemplary embodiment includes a method that is performed by a data management system. The data management system receives a plurality of data records generated at least in part by at least one backgrou...