ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,632,342, issued on May 19, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Centralized data protection operations and copy management of active-active and active-passive database clusters" was invented by Shivaraj Abbigeri (Navalgund, India), Rejith Mohan M (Thiruvananthapuram, India), Srikanth Chowdary Marri (Bangalore, India), Elango Chockalingam (Bangalore, India), Amith Ramachandran (Bangalore, India), Harini H S (Shimoga, India), Abhinash Kumar (Aurangabad, India) and Navneet Upadhyay (Bangalore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for managing a database system includes obtaining, by a computing node in the database...